Grindr disappears from app stores in China amid Olympics crackdown

Authorities are conducting a month-long campaign to root out illegal and sensitive content during the lunar new year holiday and Winter Games

Photograph: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/REX/ShutterstockPhotograph: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstockas authorities tighten control of the country’s already heavily policed internet and purge online behaviour the ruling Communist party dislikes.

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