{"id":5785,"date":"2017-07-29T06:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2020-08-06T01:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T01:41:00","slug":"apple-removes-vpn-apps-chinese-app-store-government-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/apple-removes-vpn-apps-chinese-app-store-government-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple removes VPN apps from the Chinese App Store on government orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Chinese iPhone users woke up to discover that censorship-defeating apps such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/vpn-by-private-internet-access\/id955626407\">Private Internet Access VPN<\/a> app are no longer present in the Chinese Apple App store.\u00a0The move comes after the Chinese government launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/19\/business\/media\/china-apple-app-store.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inquiry<\/a> into Apple\u2019s App Store content back in April of 2017 \u2013 targeting several livestreaming sites. Recently, along with the VPN app removal from China, livestreaming, LGBTQ content, and even Winnie the Pooh have been formally banned in China. The Chinese government made it clear that apps would need to register to be allowed. Earlier today, it was reported that multiple VPN apps had been removed from the Chinese Apple App Store directly by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/29\/technology\/china-apple-censorhip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple<\/a>. These apps are still available if a Chinese user buys from the App Store <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/anyone-can-download-apps-from-the-us-app-store-here-is-how\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outside of China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Apple gives in to Chinese governmental pressure<\/h2>\n<p>Additionally, like other countries such as Russia, China has taken to forcing tech companies to build datacenters on their soil and store data on Chinese users where it is accessible to the local government. It was just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/12\/business\/apple-china-data-center-cybersecurity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">two weeks ago<\/a> that Apple announced it was building a new datacenter in Shanghai to acquiesce. In sharp contrast to the single point of failure and censorship represented by the Chinese Apple App Store, Chinese distribution of Android apps happens through many third party app stores (because Google Play Store is banned)- making it much harder for the government to come in and force entire classes of apps to be banned.<\/p>\n<h2>Censorship in China is getting worse<\/h2>\n<p>The Chinese government\u2019s stance on VPNs, which allows domestic internet users to jump the Great Firewall of China and access the open internet, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/putting-together-pieces-chinese-vpn-jigsaw-puzzle\/\">puzzling<\/a> to say the least. Beyond blocking unregistered VPNs, China\u2019s censors have even developed the ability to delete images <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/china-government-can-censor-pics-memes-send-friends-via-im\/\">mid-transmission<\/a> if you use popular Chinese messaging apps such as WeChat. In one province, the government has even forced residents to install spyware \u2013 and has set up checkpoints on the streets to make sure that users have this government spying app, called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/xinjiang-china-police-set-checkpoints-ensure-government-mandated-jingwang-spyware-installed\/\">Jingwang<\/a>,\u201d installed on their phones.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/great-firewall-china-chinese-government-orders-isps-block-personal-vpn-use-february-1st\/\">China\u2019s VPN ban<\/a> seems to be pretty real for Chinese users \u2013 though VPN technology still works from within the Great Firewall. The government is attempting to corral its most free internet users into using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/chinese-government-denies-plans-block-personal-use-vpn-china\/\">officially surveilled channels<\/a>, ones where the government can control discourse and narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Chinese iPhone users woke up to discover that censorship-defeating apps such as the Private Internet Access VPN app are no longer present in the Chinese Apple App store.\u00a0The move comes after the Chinese government launched an inquiry into Apple\u2019s App Store content back in April of 2017 \u2013 targeting several livestreaming sites. Recently, along &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/apple-removes-vpn-apps-chinese-app-store-government-orders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple removes VPN apps from the Chinese App Store on government orders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1945,1,130,1937],"tags":[101,225,285],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-news","category-governments","category-vpn","tag-apple","tag-china","tag-vpn-ban"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Apple 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