Pocket Casts and Castro Podcasts removed from Apple’s China store

Pocket Casts and Castro Podcasts removed from Apple’s China store

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/pocket-castro-podcast-removed-from-china/

Before June each year, content and media platforms in China anxiously anticipate a new round of censorship as the government tightens access to information in the lead-up to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

This year, Chinese users lost access to two podcast apps — Pocket Casts and Castro Podcasts. Neither app is searchable within Apple’s Chinese App Store at the time of writing.

Pocket Casts and Castro Podcasts removed from Apple’s China store

Jun 11, 2020, 9:21am UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/11/pocket-castro-podcast-removed-from-china/ > Before June each year, content and media platforms in China anxiously anticipate a new round of censorship as the government tightens access to information in the lead-up to the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. > This year, Chinese users lost access to two podcast apps — Pocket Casts and Castro Podcasts. Neither app is searchable within Apple’s Chinese App Store at the time of writing.