Apple removes apps that help Chinese evade censorship

China appears to have received help on 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.

Profit over people is entirely normal for large corporations like Apple. They rarely choose the other way around.

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