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China Shuts Apple's Film and Book Services

posted by cmn32480 on Sunday April 24 2016, @10:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the nobody-should-be-surprised dept.

n1 writes:

BBC reports:

China has shut down Apple's online book and movie services as it imposes strict rules governing what can be published on the net.

Regulations were unveiled in March that outlawed foreign ownership of online publishing services. The rules also required that all content shown to Chinese people must be stored on servers based on the Chinese mainland.

Apple said it hoped access to the services would be restored soon.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by seeprime on Sunday April 24 2016, @04:05PM

    by seeprime (5580) on Sunday April 24 2016, @04:05PM (#336585)

    It is no secret that China rigs the system to favor China and Chinese businesses. China's banning foreign ownership of online publishing services needs to be countered by moving manufacturing jobs back home. This needs to be done anyway. The "service" economy is an illusion.

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  • (Score: 1) by segwonk on Monday April 25 2016, @05:36AM

    by segwonk (3259) <jwinnNO@SPAMearthlink.net> on Monday April 25 2016, @05:36AM (#336847) Homepage

    I assumed this was more about the control of information/propaganda than about propping up Chinese businesses.

    Then again, I didn't RTFA.....

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