{"id":22372,"date":"2020-09-02T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/pakistan-blocks-immoral-tinder-grinder-and-other-apps"},"modified":"2020-09-02T08:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:05:45","slug":"pakistan-blocks-immoral-tinder-grindr-and-other-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22372","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan blocks &#8216;immoral&#8217; Tinder, Grindr and other apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dating platforms told they are breaching laws against extramarital relationships and homosexuality<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s government has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating \u201cimmoral content\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>In Pakistan extramarital relationships and homosexuality are illegal. The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority said it has sent notices to the management of the five apps, \u201ckeeping in view the negative effects of immoral\/indecent content streaming\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/02\/pakistan-blocks-immoral-tinder-grinder-and-other-apps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dating platforms told they are breaching laws against extramarital relationships and homosexualityPakistan\u2019s government has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating \u201cimmoral&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,60,61,58,1657,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt-rights","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-tinder","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22373,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22372\/revisions\/22373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}