Youtubes gay propaganda

When a Russian speaker tried to chat to Apple's virtual assistant Siri about gay clubs, he got an unusual response - which Apple maintains was due to a bug. A videoexternal posted earlier this week showing a conversation in Russian between Siri and a man who identifies himself as Alex has now been widely shared on YouTube and Reddit.

Here's a translation:. Alex: "Siri, gay clubs around me? Siri: "I would have turned red blushed if I could. Alex: "How to register a gay marriage in the UK? Siri: [Silence]. Siri: "I will pretend I haven't heard it. Apple says Siri's responses were the result of a bug that has since been fixed.

But the online discussion in English reflected the fact that gay rights and homophobia in Russia are now an issue very much discussed in the outside world. There was an assumption that Siri had been deliberately set up this way to comply with Russian law.

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Recognizing that youtubes gay propaganda realism, not cynicism," said one Reddit userexternal. Comments in Russian were much more angry in tone - some homophobic and others questioning Western interest in the subject. So we made queries using the word 'gay' and got very weird replies.

We also got similar responses with the word 'lesbian'," he says. You can read their article about it in Russian here. Gay rights are a contentious subject in Russia, after a law banning gay "propaganda" was passed in It prohibits people from giving information about homosexuality to those under But there hasn't been an explanation as to how it happened in the first place.

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Image source, YouTube. By BBC Trending. Here's a translation: Alex: "Siri, gay clubs around me?