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Grindr Is Owned by a Chinese Firm, and the U.S. Is Trying to Force It to Sell
- guessmyname 8y agoPrevious discussion [1] from yesterday (98 comments) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19498975
- 1stcity3rdcoast 8y agoI 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?
- killjoywashere 8y agoThen they're too late.
- neilv 8y agoWouldn'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.
- jasonjei 8y agoSeems 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.
- malvosenior 8y agoHasn’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.
- d_e_solomon 8y ago> Hasn’t Trump been in favor of LGBT rights? No - see here: https://www.glaad.org/tap/donald-trump https://www.glaad.org/tap/donald-trump
- malvosenior 8y agoThose are incredibly nit picky to the point of being useless.
- wp381640 8y agobanning transgender people from the military doesn't seem like a nitpick
- malvosenior 8y agoThat’s true and I agree it’s not LGBT friendly (obviously). The vast majority of that list is nit picky though. I’d even say it’s a dishonest reframing of issues that have nothing to do with LGBT. Definitely not helpful to make a point.
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- gjs278 8y agotrump is the only president to support gay marriage at the start of his term
- inhgld 8y agoMost of those are indirect or simply senseless.
- Kye 8y agoHe held up a gay pride flag upside-down with "LGBTs for Trump" scrawled on it. Every single action he's taken on relevant issues contradicts that awkward, insincere show of support.