{"id":41272,"date":"2022-02-01T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/01\/grindr-disappears-from-app-stores-in-china-amid-olympics-crackdown"},"modified":"2022-02-01T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T04:05:07","slug":"grindr-disappears-from-app-stores-in-china-amid-olympics-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41272","title":{"rendered":"Grindr disappears from app stores in China amid Olympics crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and Winter Games<\/p>\n<p>Gay dating app Grindr has disappeared from multiple app stores in China as authorities tighten control of the country\u2019s already heavily policed internet and purge online behaviour the ruling Communist party dislikes.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s cyber authority is conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and February\u2019s Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/01\/grindr-disappears-from-app-stores-in-china-amid-olympics-crackdown\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and Winter GamesGay dating app Grindr has disappeared from multiple app stores in China as authorities tighten control of the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,72,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-lgbt-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41273,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41272\/revisions\/41273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}