{"id":29206,"date":"2020-06-11T15:28:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29206"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:22:36","slug":"podcast-apps-removed-from-chinese-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/podcast-apps-removed-from-chinese-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Apps Removed From Chinese App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-06-11\/apple-pulls-pocket-casts-from-app-store-at-china-s-request\">Mark Gurman<\/a> (also: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pocketcasts\/status\/1270875436671614976\">Pocket Casts<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-06-11\/apple-pulls-pocket-casts-from-app-store-at-china-s-request\"><p>Apple Inc. removed podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from its App Store in China at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the apps&rsquo; developers said this week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship,&rdquo; Pocket Casts wrote on Twitter. &ldquo;As such we won&rsquo;t be censoring podcast content at their request.&rdquo; The developers said that Apple contacted them on behalf of the Chinese regulator and that the app was removed two days later.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Isn&rsquo;t it great that the platform vendor controls which apps can exist?<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OvercastFM\/status\/1271122252868784140\">Overcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OvercastFM\/status\/1271122252868784140\">\n<p>I haven&rsquo;t been contacted about the Apple-China censorship of podcast apps, but Overcast&rsquo;s servers have been blocked in China for years, so it already didn&rsquo;t work.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve never tried to get unblocked.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/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><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Gurman (also: Pocket Casts): Apple Inc. removed podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from its App Store in China at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the apps&rsquo; developers said this week. &ldquo;We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship,&rdquo; Pocket Casts wrote on Twitter. &ldquo;As [&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":"2020-06-11T19:29:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"46b5b273-f12e-42eb-9199-3e42bebc6def","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-06T19:22:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARrWyc_EuQuuRmT5Cvrxt7w","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":[91,2092,778,1547,31,1667,26,647,1668,112],"class_list":["post-29206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-takedown","tag-castro","tag-china","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp","tag-overcast","tag-pocket-casts","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29206","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=29206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30022,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29206\/revisions\/30022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}