Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/10/apple-removes-hong-kong-protes.html
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I mean, they may indeed have received many concerned reports from “customers” (read: bots) in Hong Kong - China has very well tooled cyber operations.
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It’s a good thing that Apple doesn’t use the “Think Different” tag line anymore, because the Chinese government would have definitely forced them to remove that from every aspect of their brand identity, too lest it challenge the primacy of Xi Jinping Thought.
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Is there an android equivalent? An android burner phone for under $100 might be useful for protesting anyways. Leave the delicate, expensive, walled garden iPhone at home when you are out protesting.
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There is, according to The Grauniad:
A browser version is still available online, as is an Android version of the app, which has been available for download in the Google Play store since 18 September.
Not that Google has covered itself in freedom-loving glory in this regard, either:
Google, meanwhile, has removed the role-playing game “Revolution of Our Times” recreating the Hong Kong protests from its store this week after only three days on the market. The developer told Hong Kong Free Press that he had not received any warning from Google before the app was suspended for violating Google’s “sensitive events policy.”
More on that policy:
In the case of sensitive events, Google won’t allow apps that “lack reasonable sensitivity towards or capitalize on a natural disaster, atrocity, conflict, death or other tragic event.”
Google mentions examples like apps that deny a major tragic event happened or apps that appear to profit from a tragic event but have no discernible benefit to victims.
And yet they banned a game that takes the protests very seriously and that’s donating 80% of its earnings to a legal fund for arrested protesters.
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They do stock the app that lets you bone up on your Xi Jinping Thought, though, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuexi_Qiangguo
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A word to the wise: 學習講普通話。
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GOD DAMMIT. BLOCKED BY B_Viacom. This world we live in is a fucking snake pit.
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The bastards!
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