I am I've been having a rough week I have to tell you well there's this joke that I want to use that I can't use and it's driving me crazy

What's the joke? Okay, so as we record this as you probably know Chairman jin ping of China is in San Francisco yes

he's having a meeting with president biden it's this really big deal

so I thought what could be better while chairman She is in San Francisco than to change my

grinder bio to Chairman She.

Like just imagine you're scrolling through the grid, you want to see who's cute in the neighborhood,

and then you come across the

official Communist Party portrait of Xi Jinping, and the bio address says, visiting for work, looking for kuddles.

If I saw this, it would make my whole life and so I want to give that somebody that was that experience but I can't because the platform has a rule against impersonation.

No. Yes and I was like as much as I like this joke, I am not willing to give it my grinder account for it.

Well, isn't grinder now owned by a Chinese company?

Well, it was, but the US got very concerned about this because there's a lot of what I guess we could call sensitive data being exchanged on grinder.

And they legitimately worried that it would have like national security implication if you had a bunch of US military

service members running around the world with Grinder on their phones while it was

owned by a Chinese company so they had to spin it out.

Well I'm sorry that your grinder gag didn't work, but I am happy that you're now definitely on a no-fly list for attempting it.

I'm Kevin Rousa, tech columnist from the New York Times.

I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork.

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