{"id":973286,"date":"2025-11-12T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=973286"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:43:43","slug":"apple-pulls-two-gay-dating-apps-in-china-under-government-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/12\/apple-pulls-two-gay-dating-apps-in-china-under-government-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple pulls two gay dating apps in China under government order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple said it has pulled two of China&#8217;s biggest gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, under pressure from Chinese authorities, in the latest sign of a tightening grip on the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said in a statement that the company removed the two dating apps from China &#8220;based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China&#8221;, without further elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We follow the laws in the countries where we operate,&#8221; the spokesperson told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple said it has pulled two of China&#8217;s biggest gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, under pressure from Chinese authorities, in the latest sign of a tightening grip on the LGBTQ+ community. An Apple spokesperson said in a statement that the company removed the two dating apps from China &#8220;based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China&#8221;, without further elaborating. &#8220;We follow the laws in the countries where we operate,&#8221; the spokesperson told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}