{"id":16838,"date":"2017-01-09T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16838"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:24:59","slug":"apple-removes-linkedin-app-from-russian-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/09\/apple-removes-linkedin-app-from-russian-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Removes LinkedIn App From Russian App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/06\/technology\/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html\">Cecilia Kang and Katie Bennerjan<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/01\/06\/russia-forces-apple-linkedin-app-store\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/06\/technology\/linkedin-blocked-in-russia.html\"><p>Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/04\/business\/media\/new-york-times-apps-apple-china.html?ref=technology\">move in China to block<\/a> The New York Times app on iPhones.<\/p><p>The demand by Russian authorities to remove LinkedIn in Apple and Google app stores comes weeks after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/11\/technology\/russia-linkedin-data-court-blocked.html\">a court blocked<\/a> the professional networking service for flouting local laws that require internet firms to store data on Russian citizens within the nation&rsquo;s borders.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Direct blocking of websites has been done by China, Russia, Turkey and several other nations for years, usually through their state-run internet service providers. But civil rights groups say the pressure authoritarian governments are now placing on Apple and Google is a new wrinkle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Apps are the new choke point of free expression,&rdquo; said Rebecca MacKinnon, who leads a project on open internet tracking at New America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/apple-removes-new-york-times-apps-from-chinese-app-store\/\">Apple Removes New York Times Apps From Chinese App Store<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecilia Kang and Katie Bennerjan (via MacRumors): Smartphone users in Russia can no longer download the LinkedIn app on iPhone or Android devices, following a similar move in China to block The New York Times app on iPhones.The demand by Russian authorities to remove LinkedIn in Apple and Google app stores comes weeks after a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-01T01:15:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"d9b6e343-5442-40aa-915d-653bf5b05e89","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-06T19:25:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2bbjQ1RCQKqRXWU79bBeiQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,2092,1547,31,26,209,436,1676],"class_list":["post-16838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-app-store-takedown","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-legal","tag-linkedin","tag-russia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16839,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16838\/revisions\/16839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}