Gay Dating App Grindr Out Of App Stores In China's "Auspicious" Web Drive
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China's cyber authority is conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the Lunar New Year holiday and February's Winter Olympics.
Gay dating app Grindr has disappeared from multiple app stores in China as authorities tighten control of the country's already heavily policed internet and purge online behaviour the ruling Communist Party dislikes.
The country's cyber authority is conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the Lunar New Year holiday and February's Winter Olympics.
Although the world's most populous nation decriminalised homosexuality in 1997, same-sex marriage is illegal and LGBTQ issues remain taboo.
The LGBTQ community is under pressure, with web content censored and depictions of gay romance in films banned.
