{"id":20819,"date":"2025-11-12T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/china-removes-two-popular-gay-dating-apps-from-apple-and-android-stores\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T07:37:31","slug":"china-removes-two-popular-gay-dating-apps-from-apple-and-android-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/china-removes-two-popular-gay-dating-apps-from-apple-and-android-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"China removes two popular gay dating apps from Apple and Android stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions<\/p>\n<p>Two of China\u2019s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, Blued and Finka were unavailable on Apple\u2019s app store and several Android platforms. Users who had already downloaded the apps appeared to still be able to use them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/11\/china-removes-gay-dating-apps-blued-finka-apple-android-lgbt-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0844ae1f3ca177acbae6ea868cb0d7d077fef163\/735_0_3606_2885\/master\/3606.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8759b12eaf9bf228aa145bed0646cfe6\" title=\"China removes two popular gay dating apps from Apple and Android stores\" \/>Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions<br \/>\nTwo of China\u2019s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities.<br \/>\nAs of Tuesday, Blued and Finka were unavailable on Apple\u2019s app store and several Android platforms. Users who had already downloaded the apps appeared to still be able to use them. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions Two of China\u2019s most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities. As of Tuesday, Blued and Finka were unavailable on Apple\u2019s app store and several &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/12\/china-removes-two-popular-gay-dating-apps-from-apple-and-android-stores\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China removes two popular gay dating apps from Apple and Android stores<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}