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Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell

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Re: Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell

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I didn’t follow the previous discussion, but if I were a conspiracist, I’d think that someone in the US government is already or has the potential to be exposed as a Grindr user, and is therefore using their influence to keep the information out of the hands of a foreign government?

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I didn’t follow the previous discussion, but if I were a conspiracist, I’d think that someone in the US government is already or has the potential to be exposed as a Grindr user, and is therefore using their influence to keep the information out of the hands of a foreign government?

Then they're too late.

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Seems ironic to me that an administration that is openly hostile to LGBT rights is afraid of a gay dating app being used as blackmail material for their own clandestine gay Republican officials that are supposedly leading straight lives.

Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? Also, why do you think Republican officials are clandestinely gay? Seems wrong to assume that about someone.

Re: Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell

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I didn’t follow the previous discussion, but if I were a conspiracist, I’d think that someone in the US government is already or has the potential to be exposed as a Grindr user, and is therefore using their influence to keep the information out of the hands of a foreign government?

Wouldn't it be too late for that? Presumably, the foreign government has up-to-the-minute data from Grindr, besides the decade of historical data up to this minute.

I assumed the concern is about future sensitive information.

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post #4

Seems ironic to me that an administration that is openly hostile to LGBT rights is afraid of a gay dating app being used as blackmail material for their own clandestine gay Republican officials that are supposedly leading straight lives.

Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? Also, why do you think Republican officials are clandestinely gay? Seems wrong to assume that about someone.

> Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights?

No - see here: https://www.glaad.org/tap/donald-trump

Re: Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? Also, why do you think Republican officials are clandestinely gay? Seems wrong to assume that about someone.

> Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? No - see here: https://www.glaad.org/tap/donald-trump

Those are incredibly nit picky to the point of being useless.

Re: Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? Also, why do you think Republican officials are clandestinely gay? Seems wrong to assume that about someone.

> Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? No - see here: https://www.glaad.org/tap/donald-trump

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