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brendanicus:

brendanicus:

Grindr is being voluntarily removed from Chinese app stores because China actually has strong data privacy and protection laws that US companies don’t want to comply with. I’m sure the way anglo gay media report on this will be fair and not at all alarmist-

Oh nvm lol

Also just a reminder that the literal biggest gay social network/dating app in the world is a Chinese app based in Beijing

“Like many other US companies, we’ve chosen to remove our app from the app store in China due to the potential increased burden from China’s recently implemented Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). We may revisit this in the future,” Grindr spokesman Patrick Lenihan told The Advocate.

The increased burden of… Not collecting users’ data?