{"id":30335,"date":"2020-10-02T15:54:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=30335"},"modified":"2021-07-06T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T19:22:32","slug":"apple-removes-rss-feed-readers-from-chinese-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/02\/apple-removes-rss-feed-readers-from-chinese-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Removes RSS Feed Readers From Chinese App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/30\/apple-removes-rss-feed-readers-chinese-app-store\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a> (also <a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/20\/10\/01\/2152257\/apple-removes-two-rss-feed-readers-from-china-app-store-to-please-chinas-\ncensors\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/09\/30\/apple-removes-rss-feed-readers-chinese-app-store\/\"><p>Apple has reportedly removed two RSS feed reader apps from China&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/app-store\/\">App Store<\/a> to comply with Chinese law. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieryFeeds\/status\/1310553289545658369\">Fiery Feeds<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reederapp\/status\/1310963891539709952\">Reeder<\/a> both tweeted that their iOS apps had been removed in China over content that is considered &ldquo;illegal&rdquo; in the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Too bad the App Store is the only way to install iOS apps.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/09\/29\/feed-readers-china\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/09\/29\/feed-readers-china\"><p>It&rsquo;s completely unclear what explains the three year gap here, and the entire policy makes no sense. Why ban feed readers but not web browsers? At a technical level, feed readers are just web browsers for RSS feeds. China&rsquo;s Great Firewall should block feeds (and centralized feed aggregating sources) just as easily as it blocks websites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Perhaps because the apps make it easier to find content when using a VPN to get around the firewall?<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/app-consoles\/\">App Consoles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/podcast-apps-removed-from-chinese-app-store\/\">Podcast Apps Removed From Chinese App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/03\/hkmap-live-rejected-from-the-app-store\/\">HKmap Live Rejected From the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/23\/app-store-takedown-demands-by-governments\/\">App Store Takedown Demands by Governments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/skype-removed-from-chinese-app-stores\/\">Skype Removed From Chinese App Stores<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/apple-pulls-vpn-apps-from-china-app-store\/\">Apple Pulls VPN Apps From China App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Hardwick (also Slashdot): Apple has reportedly removed two RSS feed reader apps from China&rsquo;s App Store to comply with Chinese law. Fiery Feeds and Reeder both tweeted that their iOS apps had been removed in China over content that is considered &ldquo;illegal&rdquo; in the country. Too bad the App Store is the only way [&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":"2020-10-02T19:54:26Z","apple_news_api_id":"d18da463-5bde-491f-9e10-d8ab7063ed2e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-07-06T19:22:35Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A0Y2kY1veSR-eENircGPtLg","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":[91,2092,1547,1993,31,1837,26,487,52],"class_list":["post-30335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-store-takedown","tag-china","tag-fiery-feeds","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-reeder","tag-rss"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335","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=30335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30336,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335\/revisions\/30336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}