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Apple’s troubles in China have just started’ after it removed more than 400 VPN apps
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:46:29 -0400
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From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com> Date: August 9, 2017 at 2:49:14 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>, "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com> Subject: ‘Apple’s troubles in China have just started’ after it removed more than 400 VPN apps Apple has come under considerable criticism following its decision to agree to a Chinese government request to remove VPN apps from its local App Store. Virtual private networks allow people in China to access sites blocked by the government, and to ensure that authorities cannot track the sites they visit. App-tracking site ASO100.com says that the company has so far removed more than 400 VPN apps. But while Apple is trying to maintain good relationships with China by complying with such requests, analysts and tech commentators believe that its troubles with the country ‘have just started’ … https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/09/apple-china-vpn-censorship/ -- Geoff.Goodfellow () iconia com living as The Truth is True http://geoff.livejournal.com
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