NYT: App stores make censorship easier....

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: David <wb8foz () panix com>
Date: Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:18 AM
Subject: NYT: App stores make censorship easier....
To: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com>


In the last few weeks, the Chinese government compelled Apple to remove

New York Times apps from the Chinese version of the App Store. Then the

Russian government had Apple and Google pull the app for LinkedIn, the

professional social network, after the network declined to relocate its

data on Russian citizens to servers in that country. Finally, last week,

a Chinese regulator asked app stores operating in the country to

register with the government, an apparent precursor to wider

restrictions on app marketplaces.



These moves may sound incremental, and perhaps not immediately alarming.

China has been restricting the web forever, and Russia is no bastion of

free speech. So what’s so dangerous about blocking apps?



Here’s the thing: It’s a more effective form of censorship.

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