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Apple defends removal of censored apps from Russian App Store as means to avoid total ban
Apple has defended the reported removal of a number of independent media apps and VPN services from its Russian App Store as a means of avoiding a total block on Apple content in Russia, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday.
Apple has defended the reported removal of a number of independent media apps and VPN services from its Russian App Store as a means of avoiding a total block on Apple content in Russia, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday. Apple continues to prosper in Russia, despite Western sanctions, thanks to indirect imports of iPhones, sales of which constituted 12% of the Russian smartphone market this year, RSF said. Its “compliance with arbitrary orders from an authoritarian state called into question its public commitment to freedom of information”, which is set out in a declaration adopted in 2020, RSF continued.
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