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Proton and other VPN providers demand Apple return VPNS to Russian App Store
Call to "take transparent and decisive action"
Whether the letter will have any effect remains to be seen but it ends by asking for Apple "not to concede to the authoritarian Russian government’s efforts to suppress freedom of speech, and to instead restore all blocked VPN services on the App Store in Russia." Using a VPN lets citizens spoof their IP address to access the internet like they were in another country, one without the extensive list of blocked websites in Russia. The App Store is one of the easiest ways to install VPN, and blocking that route makes it harder for ordinary people to stay in the loop.
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