https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/351744

Apple has pulled podcast platform Pocket Casts from China's digital app store at the behest of Beijing's top internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), which believes the app can be used to access "illegal" content.

As The Verge pointed out, this marks the second major podcast app to be removed from China's App Store this month, following the recent expulsion of iOS-based Castro Podcast Player. "We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship. As such, we won't be censoring podcast content at their request," Pocket Casts tweeted this morning. "[We] feel it's a necessary step to take for any company that values the open distribution model that makes podcasting special."