Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China.
Those apps, which appear in most countries’ versions of the App Store, do not currently appear in the Chinese version. Another app related to Rebiya Kadeer, who like the Dalai Lama is an exiled minority leader reviled by China’s authorities, is unavailable in the China App Store as well. The apparent censorship comes after carrier China Unicom launched iPhone sales two months ago, making regulatory approval of the phone’s contents in the country necessary for the first time.
To read this IDG report in full, see: www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142845/Apple_censors_Dalai_Lama_iPhone_apps_in_China www.networkworld.com/news/2009/123009-apple-censors-dalai-lama-iphone.html
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