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Apple removes apps from China store that help evade censorship

Greater China is Apple's largest market outside the United States

Published Sun, Jul 30, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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CHINA appears to have received help Saturday from an unlikely source in its fight against tools that help users evade its Great Firewall of internet censorship: Apple.

Software made by foreign companies to help users skirt the country's system of internet filters has vanished from Apple's app store on the mainland.

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