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@greatfirechina

@greatfirechina
15 posts
2023-07-05
Watch this space: Threads is currently not available in European app stores (GDPR related?) and also Afghanistan 🤔 The app is available in China, although the Threads website is already blocked. App data: https://applecensorship.com/ ... Website data: https://en.greatfire.org/... https://twitter.com/... [image]
2023-07-05 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Amanda Silberling:  —  Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Po...

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Watch this space: Threads is currently not available in European app stores (GDPR related?) and also Afghanistan 🤔 The app is available in China, although the Threads website is already blocked. App data: https://applecensorship.com/ ... Website data: https://en.greatfire.org/... https://twitter.com/... [image]
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The Verge

Instagram briefly launched a basic Threads web UI, offering an early look at what to expect before its July 6 launch; the service appears to have 2,500+ users

Instagram's new Threads app, a Twitter competitor, isn't supposed to launch until July 6th, but the web interface went live for a few hours today for everyone to explore.

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2023-07-04
Watch this space: Threads is currently not available in European app stores (GDPR related?) and also Afghanistan 🤔 The app is available in China, although the Threads website is already blocked. App data: https://applecensorship.com/ ... Website data: https://en.greatfire.org/... https://twitter.com/... [image]
2023-07-04 View on X
TechCrunch

Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features

Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the US.  The app will be called Threads …

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2022-09-15
The text-to-image AI developed by Baidu can generate images that show Chinese objects like Tiananmen Square and celebrities more accurately than existing AIs. But a built-in censorship mechanism will filter out politically sensitive words. #China #Censorship https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-15 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Users say a demo of ERNIE-ViLG, Baidu's new text-to-image AI model, labels words in political contexts as “sensitive” and blocks them from generating a result

Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @mmitchell_ai , @greatfirechina , and @kwestin Tweets: @mmitchell_ai : “The difficulty of identifying a clear line between censorship a...

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2022-05-21
Microsoft is still enabling Chinese censorship globally. We wrote about something similar in 2014. The company's response then was: “Bing does not apply China's legal requirements to searches conducted outside of 🇨🇳. Due to an error in our system...” 😕 https://en.greatfire.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Report: Microsoft hid Bing autofill in the US for politically sensitive Chinese names, affecting Windows search; Microsoft blames a technical error

including those of Xi Jinping and Liu Xiaobo—wouldn't appear in the autofill system in English or Chinese. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : @aatilley Microsoft...

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2021-06-08
Not first time Apple has chosen to disable privacy features in China: - iCloud data stored in China, encryption keys held by authorities - 1000s of apps censored in China app store, including every reliable VPN and major news sites (see @applecensorship) https://www.reuters.com/...
2021-06-08 View on X
Reuters

Apple: iCloud Private Relay will not work in China, Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user's web browsing behavior …

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2021-06-06
We should be grateful to Microsoft. It was shaping up to be the quietest June 4th anniversary since 1989. But thanks to Bing censorship, the image most associated with the CCP is once again on the front page of newspapers around the world. https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-06 View on X
VICE

Microsoft says Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre due to “accidental human error”

showing the long column of tanks that he held up. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @starsandstripes : Microsoft Corp. blamed “accidental human error” for its Bin...

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2021-03-16
Our data indicates that the @signalapp website was blocked after March 5 and on or before March 15 https://en.greatfire.org/... The app remains available in Apple's China app store (even though Apple has censored hundreds of other privacy-enhancing apps) https://applecensorship.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Signal app and website are unavailable in China but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire says Signal's website was banned on March 15

Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn't last long.  The app, which is used for encrypted conversations …

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2020-09-21
Will Chinese state media translate this passage when reporting on the WeChat nothingban? https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-21 View on X
CNBC

US judge in California issues a preliminary injunction halting Commerce Department's order banning downloads of WeChat from Sunday

one with a deal, the other with a judge's help Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg : Trump's WeChat Curbs Halted by Judge on Free Speech Concerns David Shepardson / Reuters : Wall Stree...

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2020-08-19
Every single Apple customer in China wished that the company was “loosely operating” the app store. The exact opposite is true - Apple censors what Beijing wants them to, including thousands of privacy and anti-censorship apps. https://applecensorship.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-19 View on X
9to5Mac

Report: a look at the narrowing regulatory exemptions Apple has been operating under in China, such as running an App Store without a local partner

Amid continued tension between the United States and China, a new report from The Information details how Apple could be impacted by Chinese retaliation. Source: The Information .

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2020-06-12
This is a worrying trend. Apple has no problem removing apps at the request of the Chinese authorities (almost 3000 in China alone!) but why do they think it necessary to act as a go-between / messenger / negotiator / babysitter between CAC and app developers? @applecensorship https://twitter.com/...
2020-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Apple pulls podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from the App Store in China after China's government determined they can be used to access “illegal” content

Sam Byford / The Verge :

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When Apple says that “194 apps were removed in China for legal reasons” they tell the general public that these are mainly gambling and porn apps. In truth, they remove anything the Chinese authorities ask them to remove. @applecensorship https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2020-06-12 View on X
The Verge

Apple pulls podcast apps Pocket Casts and Castro from the App Store in China after China's government determined they can be used to access “illegal” content

Sam Byford / The Verge :

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2020-05-25
This is the best hope for Apple customers in China who want to experience an uncensored internet @applecensorship https://www.vice.com/... via @vice
2020-05-25 View on X
Wired

Jailbreaking team Unc0ver has released a tool that will jailbreak most versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5; the tool makes use of a 0-day flaw in the iOS kernel

Lily Hay Newman / Wired :

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2020-04-02
The Chinese authorities censored doctors on WeChat. These doctors were advising the public on prevention risks and sharing essential health and safety information. https://citizenlab.ca/...
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CNN

Doctors are banding together on Twitter and TikTok to settle on frameworks of verifiable sources and information to share with the public

that cost savings and profits matter more than human lives in corporate medicine. Al Jazeera English / @ajenglish : “Bold, loud truths is how we save the most lives.” Healthcare wo...

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2019-12-10
“If Tank Man can stand in front of a line of tanks, American execs can stand before a line of their colleagues and find an ethical framework and a set of values that can work.” https://techcrunch.com/... via @techcrunch
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TechCrunch

Popular stock photo service Shutterstock's censoring of content to appease the Chinese government shows that some US companies choose to forget about US values

Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :

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