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Senators Ted Cruz and Patrick Leahy have written to Apple CEO Tim Cook to ask ten questions about Apple's recent removal of VPN apps from its Chinese app store:
Two US senators have written to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking why the company reportedly removed VPN apps from the company's store in China. "If these reports are true," the senators wrote, "we are concerned that Apple may be enabling the Chinese government's censorship and surveillance of the Internet."
[...] On or around July 29, Apple removed many of the most-used VPN applications from its Chinese app store. In a short email from the company, VPN providers were informed that VPN applications are considered illegal in China.
"We are writing to notify you that your application will be removed from the China App Store because it includes content that is illegal in China, which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines," Apple informed the affected VPNs.
[...] Now, in a letter sent to Apple CEO Tim Cook, US senators Ted Cruz and Patrick Leahy express concern at the move by Apple, noting that if reports of the software removals are true, the company could be assisting China's restrictive approach to the Internet.
"VPNs allow users to access the uncensored Internet in China and other countries that restrict Internet freedom. If these reports are true, we are concerned that Apple may be enabling the Chines[sic] government's censorship and surveillance of the Internet."
Leahy and Cruz were cosponsors of the USA Freedom Act.
Previously: Apple Capitulates, Removes Unlicensed VPN Apps From China App Store
Russia Bans VPNs and Tor, Effective November 1
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @11:07AM (3 children)
- Retreat from Paris accord - the others stay in
- Retreat from UNESCO [theguardian.com] - with payments arrears
- Planning to renege on the Iran nuclear deal - all the other 6 members plan to stay in [reuters.com]
Do it some more times, and US will start to be alone.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @05:28PM (2 children)
When you are an 800-pound gorilla, you don't do everything by consensus.
If countries want to be in the Paris accord, cool. We don't benefit from being in it. Let other countries fuck up their own economies. We'll be fine. The accord was absurdly biased against us anyway. We paid the most, and we had to make severe economy-destroying changes, while China and India got to increase pollution and all sorts of minor countries got huge payments.
UNESCO was junk. Again, we paid the most. It was a little we-hate-Israel club.
The nuclear deal with Iran was screwed up because the people on our side were personally benefiting from it. Some of those people are the same ones who made a similar nuclear deal with North Korea back during the Clinton administration. Clearly that didn't do what we supposedly expected it to do.
Being alone is not a bad thing. Don't fear it. We are not in a situation like Slovakia, Armenia, Rwanda, Bolivia, or Bhutan. We have hundreds of millions of people. We have millions of square miles of land, much of it good for farming and mining. We have access to two huge oceans; the Indian ocean is less important BECAUSE WE ARE NOT THERE. Our mere presence makes our oceans matter.
We've become addicted to interaction with the rest of the world, but we really could go it alone while retaining modern life. We have this capability. We can also shove other countries around. We are a mighty country. Unilateral actions are what we do.
Heck, some of us take your fear as a blueprint for the future: Do it some more times, and US will start to be alone. 'MURICA! FUCK YEAH!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 21 2017, @09:53PM
Heh, nostalgia or delusion, I wonder which?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday October 21 2017, @10:54PM
My fear? Yeah, I suppose so.
The natural fear any sane person has to have of a mad crazed aggressive one.
Does this mean the sane persons need to play mad? I really doubt it when alternative solutions exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford