China’s cyberspace regulator has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing. This includes Apple’s App Store. Apple in 2016 invested $1 billion in the Chinese ride-sharing firm which was, at the the time, the single largest investment Didi Chuxing had ever received.
The Cyberspace Administration of China announced the ban Sunday, citing serious violations on Didi Global Inc.’s collection and usage of personal information, without elaborating. That unusually swift decision came two days after the regulator said it was starting a cybersecurity review of the company.
That effectively requires the largest app stores in China, operated by the likes of Apple Inc. and smartphone makers Huawei Technologies Co. and Xiaomi Corp., to strike Didi from their offerings. But the current half-billion or so users can continue to order up rides and other services so long as they downloaded the app before Sunday’s order…
Beijing has been curbing the growing influence of China’s largest internet corporations, widening an effort to tighten the ownership and handling of troves of information that online powerhouses from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to Tencent and Didi scoop up daily from hundreds of millions of users. The regulator on Sunday ordered Didi to rectify its problems following legal requirements and national standards, and take steps to protect the personal information of its users.
MacDailyNews Take: As if anybody in China not named Xi Jinping (and likely not even him) has any private personal information.
If the Chinese Communist slave masters ask Tim Cook to strip naked and bark at the moon, he will do it, and fast.
So you want Apple to distribute an app that is so open about harvesting user data that it even violates the Chinese privacy rules?
Gweilo Volunteer Communist Commissar 👆🇨🇳
TxUser is always on the side of the criminal state of the CCP. Even liberal Apple must bow. Funny TxUser will side the cyberspace security organization of the CCP over Apple’s internal policies; Tx do you really think Apple would allow an app to “harvest” user data. You do know in addition to hosting the app on the store Apple invested 1 billion in the development of the App/company . So in regards to security, TxUser is willing to take the word/side of the CCP over Apple. Enough said, we know where is his/her/they allegiance is.
And speaking of “harvesting” and that CCP…
How it started…
“Apple has successfully defeated an attempt by TikTok and others to circumvent App Tracking Transparency in China.”
MDN Take: “Apple has successfully defeated an attempt by TikTok and others to circumvent App Tracking Transparency in China.”
A few seconds later.
How it’s going…
“China’s cyberspace regulator has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing. This includes Apple’s App Store. Apple in 2016 invested $1 billion in the Chinese ride-sharing firm which was, at the the time, the single largest investment Didi Chuxing had ever received.”
Why won’t you just sideload it…?
Among other reasons, because the “Great Firewall of China” would block any site offering apps that violated Chinese regulations.
Surely you recognize the sarcasm, but that aside, as single censor of iOS, Apple makes it easier for China to censor too.
Also, if one could side load, there would be no store required at all as an option. An install file only.
You can’t expect a computer company to stand up to a country that has a billion people and nuclear weapons. A useful response to China requires that the rest of the world be unified. That isn’t going to happen when you have to stop for people who can’t tell the difference between Sweden and Stalin.
Maybe if they taught history rather than opinions in school they would know.
Also wouldn’t hurt to throw in civics and economics.
Then maybe many wouldn’t be thinking Sweden isn’t as they’ve been mislead to believe.
I really sympathize with teachers. They are tormented by “management grenades” from all directions from people with single issue agendas and no interest in what ultimately makes teaching work.
Current bureaucrats want to treat teachers like McDonalds employees – giving them absolutely no freedom to adapt or improvise to address what is going on around them. For example, they can’t talk in class about big news stories the kids hear about because that is “deviating from the lesson plan”. Nor can they address an individual student’s needs or concerns.
Then they get in trouble with parents for their “lack of common sense” because they are forced to be so rule bound and are never supported when they try to take the initiative to solve problems. We saw this with the poor use of zoom classes during the pandemic – the teachers were not allowed to work to the advantages of Zoom, resulting in needless frustration for the students.
Says the local homeschooled troll.
Is that an asshole opinion?
Lol, this is funny.