[liberationtech] Apple Censorship

[Charlie Smith]

Hi - we formally launched applecensorship.com last week. You can find our
annoucement here:

https://mailchi.mp/greatfire/applecensorship

The Intercept also covered the project, and highlighted how Radio Free
Asia, Tor and Psiphon have all been subjected to Apple censorship in China:

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/01/apple-apps-china-censorship/

Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions about this
project.

Best, Charlie

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[liberationtech] Apple and censorship in China

[Charlie Smith]

Hi,

This year we’ve seen China escalate its longstanding assault on Internet
freedom, implementing new regulations and requiring Apple to remove VPN
applications, news applications, and other content from their app store.

There is no excuse for any action a company takes to embolden China's
authoritarian efforts.

We've teamed up with Golden Frog (the company behind VyprVPN) in writing a
letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ask-apple-to-stop-censorship-in-china

In this letter we ask for more transparency in his company’s dealings with
China, to better help Internet users understand regulations and demands,
and how Apple's compliance decisions impact their Internet experience.

All individuals around the world should be afforded the right to a free and
open Internet, and should be able to fight for that right if and when it's
threatened. But we cannot fight what we cannot see.

Best, Charlie

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[liberationtech] Expanding beyond China

[Charlie Smith]

We have been monitoring online censorship in China since 2011 via
GreatFire.org. In 2012, we launched FreeWeibo where we make available
weibos (the equivalent of Twitter’s tweets) that have been censored on Sina
Weibo, the most popular microblog in China and the country's biggest single
social network. Using a range of sources, we operate the only database of
censored Chinese user content anywhere. We currently make available 20
million weibos out of which 235,000 are confirmed to have been censored. We
are able to detect high-level censored content in real time. It’s both a
demonstration of what an uncensored Chinese Internet could look like, and a
practical tool for keeping up to date on what the Chinese authorities don’t
want you to know.

We are now considering expanding our offerings beyond China and I am
curious in hearing about which countries (and why) the members of this list
feel should warrant our initial attention.

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