Apple admitted to removing 674 Virtual Private Network (VPN) apps from its App Store in China in a letter to Congress. It’s latest free speech crackdown in the increasingly isolated Asian country.
VPNs allow users to access the full, free internet and maneuver around China’s so-called “Great Firewall,” which blocks Chinese citizens from using many social media sites and search tools.
Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) sent a letter to Apple asking why they had deleted VPNs from its App Store in China. “If these reports are true, we are concerned that Apple may be enabling the Chinese government’s censorship and surveillance of the Internet,” the senators wrote last month.
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