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As US Tech Firms Bow to China’s Censorship, Chinese Users Risk Everything to Defy It
Apple continues to remove the tools that ordinary citizens rely on for unfettered speech, even as ordinary Chinese use any means possible to speak up.
On April 19, the U.S. technology giant Apple announced that it had removed the applications WhatsApp and Threads – both owned by the U.S.-based social media firm Meta – from its app store in China on orders from the Chinese government. In October 2022, when China was still under the CCP’s draconian COVID-19 lockdown, a man whose name netizens believe to be Peng Lifang unfurled two banners on a bridge in central Beijing, calling for an end to the harsh “zero COVID” policy and for “despotic traitor” Xi to step down. Instead of aiding the regime’s efforts to stamp out these stubborn embers of free expression and dissent, international companies like Apple should follow the example of courageous Chinese netizens and push back against the CCP’s censorious demands.
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