Grindr, a popular LGBT dating app, confirmed in a statement to Out Magazine last week that they had decided to reverse a ban on the term “No Zionists” on user profiles.
Grindr said that the policy change was "implemented following user escalations around its potentially inflammatory nature."
However, a spokesperson confirmed that the company "recently decided to reverse this one upon review.”
Grindr's controversial policy
The initial decision to ban the phrase had been a controversial one, especially as the app reportedly permitted other statements like "No FFA (fat, femmes, or Asians).”
Under the app’s terms of service, users are not allowed to "post, store, send, transmit, or disseminate any information or material which a reasonable person could deem to be objectionable, defamatory, libelous, offensive, obscene, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically or otherwise offensive to any group or individual, intentionally misleading, false, or otherwise inappropriate, regardless of whether this material or its dissemination is unlawful.”