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A monument to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was taken down in St Petersburg on October 31 but reports of its removal surfaced only on Monday.
The two-metre (6.5 feet) high iPhone, the biggest such monument in the world, belonged to a group of companies called ZEFS. It was set up in January 2013 in the yard of the National Research University of Information Technologies (ITMO University).
The owners of the monument have said they were motivated in removing the structure for two major reasons. The first referred to last week's announcement by Apple CEO Tim Cook that he was openly gay. ZEFS have reportedly stated that they were seeking to comply with a law that bans the promotion of "nontraditional sexual relations among minors." The second reason was recent leaks by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden which indicated that Apple devices were used by US intelligence agencies to spy on people worldwide.
The monument, in the shape of a giant iPhone 4G, was equipped with an interactive touch screen that provided information about the founder of Apple. On the back side of the monument there was a QR-code, which forwarded to a website dedicated to Steve Jobs.
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GJ, like americans would make monuments for our dead scientists & interpretenuers or other non americans. We should question our self why we did it even in the first place.
The two-metre (6.5 feet) high iPhone, the biggest such monument in the world, belonged to a group of companies called ZEFS. It was set up in January 2013 in the yard of the National Research University of Information Technologies (ITMO University).
The owners of the monument have said they were motivated in removing the structure for two major reasons. The first referred to last week's announcement by Apple CEO Tim Cook that he was openly gay. ZEFS have reportedly stated that they were seeking to comply with a law that bans the promotion of "nontraditional sexual relations among minors." The second reason was recent leaks by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden which indicated that Apple devices were used by US intelligence agencies to spy on people worldwide.
The monument, in the shape of a giant iPhone 4G, was equipped with an interactive touch screen that provided information about the founder of Apple. On the back side of the monument there was a QR-code, which forwarded to a website dedicated to Steve Jobs.
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GJ, like americans would make monuments for our dead scientists & interpretenuers or other non americans. We should question our self why we did it even in the first place.
