A Russian iPhone user recently filed a one million ruble lawsuit
against Apple, accusing the American corporation of indirectly turning
him gay.
In a court filing that went viral on Russia’s internet, the plaintiff
alleges that he became “mired in a same-sex relationship” after
receiving the wrong kind of cryptocurrency on a virtual wallet app that
he installed on his iPhone in 2017. The man, identified as one D.
Razumilov claims that he received 69 GayCoins – a cryptocurrency
designed for member of the LGBT community – from an anonymous sender.
The mysterious transfer was accompanied the message “don’t knock it till
you’re tried it”, which kind of made sense to Razumilov and eventually
pushed him to become involved in a gay relationship.
“I thought, indeed, how can I judge something without trying it? And
decided to try same-sex relationships,” D. Razumilov wrote in an official complaint.
“I can say after the passage of two months that I’m mired in intimacy
with a member of my own sex and can’t get out. I have a steady boyfriend
and I don’t know how to explain it to my parents. After receiving the
aforementioned message, my life has changed for the worse and will never
be normal again.”
“Apple pushed me towards homosexuality through manipulation. The
changes have caused me moral and mental harm,” the iPhone user added.
Пресненский районный суд принял иск о «доведении до гомосексуализма». Москвич потребовал миллион рублей от Apple в качестве компенсации морального вреда. https://t.co/kojzqje5Pk pic.twitter.com/iex8gR3r4g— #говоритмосква (@govoritmsk) October 2, 2019
Razumilov’s lawyer, Sapizhat Gusnieva, told members of the Russian
press that the lawsuit was very serious, and that her client had
suffered and become scarred as a result of Apple’s failure to act. Even
though the message was received on a third-party app, Gusnieva said
that the corporation bears responsibility for the services that run on
its platform. As a result, Apple should pay Razumilov one million rubles
($15,300) as compensation.
According to an online database, Moscow’s Presnensky District Court registered Razumilov’s lawsuit last Wednesday and a hearing is scheduled for October 17.
