Apple said it complied with orders from the Chinese government to remove the Meta-owned WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China. Apple also removed Telegram and Signal from China.
The New York Times similarly wrote that “a person briefed on the situation said the Chinese government had found content on WhatsApp and Threads about China’s president, Xi Jinping, that was inflammatory and violated the country’s cybersecurity laws. The specifics of what was in the content was unclear, the person said.”
“These apps and many foreign apps are normally blocked on Chinese networks by the ‘Great Firewall’—the country’s extensive cybersystem of censorship—and can only be used with a virtual private network or other proxy tools,” Reuters wrote.
“For years, Apple has bowed to Beijing’s demands that it block an array of apps, including newspapers, VPNs, and encrypted messaging services,” The New York Times noted yesterday.
TIL that WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram and Signal were on the Chinese App Store.
Facebook has an onion doman just for this
Yeah and all relays in China are owned by the government. Besides TOR cannot put apps back in store. Hey, that rhymes!
Wasnt Tor designed with this purpose in mind? That anyone can run the relay and it should not matter who runs one for what purpose?
Exit nodes have traditionally been a weak spot for Tor.
That’s because the US doesn’t pay thousands of people (wumaos) to manufacture weak outrage at the things that the Chinese “communist“ party has already done long ago