CHANNEL NEWS ASIA – Jan 31 – Google has pulled one of the world's largest gay dating apps from the Indonesian version of its online store in response to government demands. Officials had called for the tech giant to remove 73 LGBT-related apps, including dating services, from its Play Store and urged people to shun apps that broke with cultural norms in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. Gay dating app Blued – which boasts ~27M users globally – no longer appeared in the Google Play Store available to Indonesian users. Apple's online store still has Blued available.
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