![]() However, the latest actions suggest that window might be closing fast. Foreign podcasts have been banned in China for years, but Apple Podcast recently opened up a window to foreign content in the nation. To that end, it often obliges requests to censor apps and content deemed sensitive by the Chinese government including games like Plague, Inc. “We were not given specifics.”Ĭhina is Apple’s third largest market after the US and Europe. “We think it might have been our support of the protests in the Discover tab,” Castro tweeted. The earliest we featured the app was back in 2013. “As such we won't be censoring podcast content at their request.” The company added that Apple told it to contact the CAC directly to find out what content presented a problem, but “we assumed that what they’d want us to remove are specific podcasts and possibly some of the Black Lives Matter content we’d posted.”Īpple also recently removed Castro Podcasts from the App Store for similar reasons. The Pocket Casts app may be old but it still is one of the most popular podcast players on both Android and iOS. “We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship,” it tweeted. ![]() Pocket Casts suggested that the app could be restored if it pulled down specific content, but declined to do so. ![]() As such we won't be censoring podcast content at their request.- Pocket Casts June 11, 2020 We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship. Pocket Casts has been removed from the Chinese App store by Apple, at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China. It was told that the app “include content that is illegal in China as determined by the CAC. China’s regulator made the demand to Pocket Casts through Apple, according a Pocket Casts Twitter thread. Apple has pulled Pocket Casts, one of the most popular podcast apps on iOS, from its App Store in China. They both watched the race this time The guys discuss the usual talking points from the weekends action, as well as rating their driver and dick of the day.
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