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Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe

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Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Apple has removed several apps offering virtual private network (VPN) services from the Russian AppStore, following a request from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulator, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Thursday.

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Agreed regarding access to information being a human right.

I was also surprised that Apple went with this and didn’t just ignore them. This is not China after all.

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