Two reports released Thursday by the Apple Censorship Project accuse Apple of selling human rights for profit while collaborating with government censorship in China and Russia. So there was app censorship in Hong Kong and Russia.
“Apple’s temporary withdrawal from Russia following the outbreak of war in Ukraine and Apple’s decision to move some of its production out of China has so far provided no tangible evidence of any improvement in the App Store situation. To the best of our knowledge, Apple still willing to cooperate with repressive regimes“, underlined Benjamin Ismail, the project’s director.
To give you an idea, in November 2022 there were no 2,370 apps available elsewhere in the App Store in Hong Kong. Among those lost at the scene are VPN apps. The number of missing programs in the app store in China is 10,837, and in Russia 2,754.
“Apps at Risk: Apple’s Censorship and Commitments in Hong Kong” and “United Apple: Apple’s Censorship and Commitments in Russia” are published. project led by free speech advocacy group GreatFire.
The documents differ in how country authorities enforce censorship requirements, but Apple’s operation is similar. The company fulfilled more orders from Moscow from 2018 to 2022. especially in applications LGBTQIA+ for government-sponsored homophobia.
According to İsmail, Google and Twitter are more transparent. An April report shows that “Apple lies in Transparency reports and deliberately obscuring the scale of its absence of apps and the reality of the 175 App Stores it operates worldwide”.
Source: Tec Mundo
