Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech::Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Nearly half the app’s workers refused and have been laid off.

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    Jesus. The CEO of Grindr is a supporter of homophobes. We truly are in the worst timeline.

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      He googled “how to fuck the gays” and grindr was the top result.

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      Yep. Grinder is a trash company now. I think it was even owned by a company in China for a while, which is just weird.

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        Seems like it would just be a useful database for blackmailing a bunch of closeted guys.

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          That’s one of the older tricks, no pun intended. It used to be that you’d have a hard time getting a security clearance if you were gay, with the excuse being that you were vulnerable to blackmail. It’s less of a big deal now, but I can think of a wide class of politicians who would still be vulnerable to blackmail, and grindr is a very popular app during political conventions.