China poses a triple threat to Apple. First, the escalating trade war between the US and China…
Tag: free speech
Want Facebook to censor speech? Be careful what you wish for
The only figure as capable as Donald Trump of spinning up an instant and frantic media cycle these days is Mark Zuckerberg…
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…
Pew Research survey: Majority of Americans believe social media platforms censor political views
In the midst of an ongoing debate over the power of digital technology companies and the way they do business,…
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…
Microsoft to ban ‘offensive language’ and monitor private data to ‘investigate’ users
Microsoft is cracking down on what people say while using their services online…
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…
How U.S. iCloud users can ensure their data isn’t migrated to state-owned servers in China
While Apple yesterday warned Chinese customers that their data would be migrated to local servers…
Apple sets date to turn over cloud operations to a state-owned data center in China
Apple Inc. said it will turn over its cloud operations in China to a state-owned local partner…
Twitter issues statement regarding world leaders on Twitter
There’s been a lot of discussion about political figures and world leaders on Twitter…
U.S. Senate Republican Marco Rubio hits Tim Cook for kowtowing to China
Apple and Tim Cook are again under fire for their relationship with the Chinese government…
U.S. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says Silicon Valley is a threat to the internet
A top US regulator, defending an effort to roll back so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules, said Tuesday that…
Apple’s Cook, Facebook’s Zuckerberg meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing
Xi was speaking to business leaders and officials…
U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Patrick Leahy blast Apple CEO Tim Cook for removing VPN apps from App Store in China
U.S. Senator’s Ted Cruz (R, Texas) and Patrick Leahy (D, Vermont) have penned a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Why Apple CEO Tim Cook capitulates to China: Money and power
Apple has amassed significant power and billions of dollars from its deals in China, a country often firmly opposed to the values the company’s CEO regularly espouses in the United States…
China’s dream is Apple’s nightmare: U.S. tech firms face risks as they quietly bow to China’s censorship and technology demands
CEOs of U.S. high-tech companies have been notably silent…
As Apple’s services business grows in China, so does its censorship risk
Apple Inc. took a public-opinion beating after it removed anticensorship tools from its China app store…
Joining Apple, Amazon’s China cloud service bows to censors
Another major American technology company is moving to implement the country’s tough restrictions on online content…
There are two sides to Apple’s China story
Apple Inc.’s decision to remove VPN apps in China is…
Putin bans VPNs to stop Russians accessing prohibited websites
President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that prohibits technology that provides access to websites banned in Russia…
Apple issues statement regarding removal of VPN apps from China App Store
China’s MIIT Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced that all developers offering VPNs…
Apple removes VPN apps from China App Store
We received notification from Apple today, July 29, 2017, at roughly 04:00 GMT, that the ExpressVPN…
Apple creates new managing director role for China
Apple wants China to know they’re serious…
Warring kings and fire-breathing dragons drive Apple growth in China, even as iPhone sales stall
Apple Inc has a new China growth driver…
In bid to improve censorship, China to summon Apple execs to discuss stricter App Store oversight
Apple has said it follows local law about what content is illegal and must be censored…
Will Apple CEO Tim Cook stand up to China over App Store censorship?
Chinese authorities plan to question Apple about video streaming services available…
Are freedom of speech and Apple iTunes App Store ratings related?
Using app ratings to construct a sentiment index that captures each country’s overall rating disposition…
