{"id":4880,"date":"2019-04-08T03:04:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2019-04-08T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:05:08","slug":"grindrs-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/grindrs-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Grindr&#8217;s For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a spare $100 million?&nbsp; If so, you could buy&nbsp;<strong><em>Grindr<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Yes, the popular \u201cgay dating\u201d app is for sale \u2013 and not necessarily by choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The Committee on Foreign Investment in the&nbsp;<\/em><em>United States<\/em>&nbsp;(CFIUS) has ruled that the ownership of the California-based app by a Chinese gaming company is a security risk. &nbsp;Apparently, the government is concerned that the personal data of users could be compromised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m the only one who hasn\u2019t been compromised on&nbsp;<em>Grindr<\/em>, it\u2019s time to end yet another column.&nbsp; If you\u2019re looking for online fun where the risks are minimal, check out&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">www.BillyMasters.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>&#8211; the site that always plays safe.&nbsp; If you have a question for me, send it along to&nbsp;<b><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/b>, and I promise to get back to you before China offers me millions for my website!&nbsp; Until next time, remember, one man&#8217;s filth is another man&#8217;s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a spare $100 million?&nbsp; If so, you could buy&nbsp;Grindr.&nbsp; Yes, the popular \u201cgay dating\u201d app is for sale \u2013 and not necessarily by choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Committee on Foreign Investment in the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;(CFIUS) has ruled that the ownership of the California-based app by a Chinese gaming company is a security risk. &nbsp;Apparently, the government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4882,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/4882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}