Apple has pulled Parler from the App Store, just hours after the free speech Twitter rival hit No.1 on Apple’s top free apps chart…
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Parler rises to No. 1 on App Store after Apple threatens ban
Parler surged to No. 1 on Apple App Store’s chart of top free apps Saturday after Apple threatened to ban the app from the store…
Apple threatens to ban free speech Twitter rival Parler from the App Store
Parler co-owner Dan Bongino said that Apple has threatened to ban the platform from its App Store and bar it from iOS devices…
Apple purges thousands of apps from China App Store amid CCP pressure
Apple is purging thousands of videogame apps from the App Store in China as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) clamps down on such content…
U.S. Senate committee grills Twitter, Google, Facebook CEOs in censorship hearing
The Twitter CEO, Facebook CEO, and Google CEO on Wednesday defended Section 230 during a hearing on censorship before the…
Apple’s iPhone 12 live event stream was noticeably missing from Chinese social media
Apple’s live “Hi, Speed” event stream of the iPhone 12 unveiling last Tuesday wasn’t carried by China’s top social media and video platforms…
Apple removes two RSS feed reader apps from China App Store
Two RSS reader apps, Reeder and Fiery Feeds, said this week that their iOS apps have been removed from Apple’s China App Store over content…
Apple quietly publishes human rights policy ahead of shareholder motion deadline
Apple’s board of directors has approved a “human rights” policy and quietly published it ahead of a September 5th deadline for shareholders…
U.S. AG Barr blasts Apple as ‘all too willing’ to cooperate with China
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said U.S. technology companies including Apple have been “all too willing” to collaborate with China’s CCP…
Apple pulls U.S. podcast platform Pockets Casts from China App Store
Pockets Casts, ranked 85th most popular in the podcast news app section on Apple’s U.S website, said on Wednesday its app had been taken down from…
Apple gets ‘striking warning’ from shareholders over China app takedowns
An Apple shareholder proposal that was critical of the company’s takedowns of virtual private network (VPN) apps in China received a notably high…
Apple shareholders defeat proposal over Chinese app removals
At the Apple shareholders meeting on Wednesday, voters defeated a proposal critical of the company’s removal of apps at the request of the Chinese…
Apple faces shareholder vote over Chinese app removals
Apple shareholders today will vote on a proposal critical of the company’s decisions to remove apps at the request of the Chinese government…
Apple declines to testify at second congressional hearing probing tech’s ties to China
Apple and TikTok have each declined a request from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) to testify at a March congressional hearing that would have probed…
U.S. senator blasts Apple for ‘risking compromise to authoritarianism’ in China
A key U.S. senator warned that Apple and the Chinese-owned music-video app TikTok are threats to international data security…
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz blasts Apple, ‘desperate to make a buck in China,’ for prioritizing profits over principles
I don’t think U.S. companies should be willing to aid and abet oppression and censorship by the Communist government…
Apple CEO Tim Cook joins influential Beijing university board as company’s China woes continue
Apple CEO Tim Cook has been appointed as the chairman of the advisory board at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, a role which offers access to state leaders…
Ted Cruz, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among U.S. lawmakers urging Apple to restore Hong Kong police activity tracking app
First Apple pulled the HKmap Live app. Then they reinstated it. Then China criticized Apple, warning of “consequences,” so Apple CEO Tim Cook quickly kowtowed and pulled it again…
Apple CEO Cook meets China regulator after pulling Hong Kong police activity tracking app
Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook met the chief of China’s market regulator in Beijing on Thursday, the Chinese agency said…
Apple accedes to China’s despotic demands
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has said that “companies should have values, just like people do.”
Apple execs told Apple TV+ content creators not to portray China negatively
Apple’s recent actions in China are a continuation of the company’s years-long practice of appeasing Beijing. To do business in China..
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s continued kowtowing to China is a very bad look
China poses a triple threat to Apple. First, the escalating trade war between the US and China…
Apple removes Quartz news app from App Store in China over Hong Kong coverage
Apple has removed Quartz’s mobile app from the App Store in China after complaints from the Chinese government due to the publication’s ongoing coverage of the Hong Kong protests…
Apple, Mozilla, Google move to block Kazakh surveillance system
The former Soviet Central Asian nation routinely blocks websites and applications used by its critics, including Facebook and Youtube, for short periods of time…
How to outsmart algorithms and take control of your information diet
Certain algorithms pull you toward the things you already know, believe, or like, and they push away everything else…
U.S. Republican congress members admonish Apple for censoring songs in China that reference Tiananmen massacre, democracy
Members of Congress are criticizing Apple for censoring its music to comply with the Chinese government…
Internet consolidation via titans like Apple, Google, and Facebook opened the door to censorship
The artificial crime of ‘hate speech’ had to be invented because more direct and traditional methods of enforcing certain goals yielded little result…
Apple Music censors songs in China that reference Tiananmen massacre, democracy
Apple Music has removed a song by Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung from its Chinese streaming service…
China orders short video apps to censor all content, including user comments, political satire and sexual moaning
Video app operators are not allowed to ridicule, satirize, oppose, defame the socialist mode, theory, system, and culture with Chinese characteristics, and the country’s major principles and policies…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Hateful views ‘have no place’ on tech platforms
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday said he believes it is ‘right’ and ‘moral’ for technology companies…
Chinese Apple iCloud accounts are now based in a state-run cloud
Apple users in China have had their data migrated to a local cloud, run by the Red State’s mobile telecoms provider…
Telegram says Apple has prevented it from updating its messaging app since April
Apple has prevented the Telegram messaging service from updating globally ever since Russia ordered Apple…
Russia wants Apple to pull Telegram off Russian App Store – or else
Apple and Russia are locked in a stand-off over the company’s App Store…
Apple removes apps with CallKit framework from the App Store in China
It’s been nearly a year since Apple began removing all VPN apps from the App Store in China…
UBS: Apple’s iPhone unlikely to recover damaged Chinese marketshare
CEO Tim Cook once envisioned China as Apple’s next big market, set to eclipse even the U.S. in revenue…
Amnesty International accuses Apple of betraying Chinese iCloud users
Amnesty International says Apple Inc is creating the Orwellian future it once envisioned…
China’s internet censors ban use of the letter ‘N’
The Chinese government demonstrated just how much power it has over the opinions of its billion-strong population…
Apple is under fire for moving iCloud data to China; Amnesty International blasts move
Apple’s latest move in China has privacy advocates and human rights groups worried…
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center…
Apple’s China lesson: Think different, but not too different
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook will co-chair the Chinese government’s showcase global business forum…
Apple in talks for first order from a Chinese chipmaker
Apple is in talks with state-backed Yangtze Memory Technologies to buy NAND flash chips…
Apple warns users who created Apple IDs overseas on dodging China’s new data law
China introduced a new cyber security law on June 1 that imposes tougher controls over data…
