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China forces Apple to remove LGBTQ+ dating apps from App Store
short by Shristi Acharya / on Monday, 10 November, 2025
China's internet regulator has forced Apple to remove the country's popular LGBTQ+ dating apps, Blued and Finka, from the country-specific App Store, reports stated. Although China decriminalised homosexuality in the 1990s, it recently put pressure on LGBTQ+ community and censored their content/accounts on social media apps. Users who had previously downloaded the banned apps can still use them.
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