Apple Turned Off Protest Communication Tool Right Before Anti-Lockdown Uprising In China

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

As it mulls kicking Elon Musk’s Twitter off the app store, it has now been revealed that Apple restricted the use of AirDrop in China, a move that harmed the organizational efforts of demonstrators protesting against the CCP’s lockdowns.

Over the past week, multiple major cities across China have seen massive protests against lockdowns, with the normally compliant Chinese exploding into rage in response to their government’s ‘zero COVID’ policy.

Much of the unrest blew up in response to an incident in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi, where at least 10 people, some say up to 40, were killed during an apartment fire because lockdown rules stopped residents from fleeing the burning building.

Most of the city’s residents have been prevented from leaving their homes for over 100 days as a result of the draconian rules, which are still in place nearly three years after the pandemic began.

With Beijing now trying to contain what some are calling the most serious mass uprising since Tiananmen Square, Apple is apparently helping them to crush dissent.

Earlier this month, Apple restricted the use of AirDrop in China, which protesters had been using to evade censorship.

AirDrop allows local connections between devices, meaning it cannot be monitored or censored by local authorities.

However, Apple launched an update to the app in China that restricted usage to just 10 minutes, making it harder for protesters to communicate with other activists, as well as send messages nearby bystanders and tourists.

AirDrop was also being used by protesters in Hong Kong, who were brutally suppressed by the CCP during months of unrest in 2019.

The smartphone company chose to roll out the new “feature” in China only right as the country experienced its biggest demonstrations in decades, which some would suggest is more than just a coincidence.

“Apple has helped Beijing to suppress public dissent multiple times, mostly by complying with its requests to remove apps used by protestors for information and communication,” reports Reclaim the Net.

“Apple also helps the Chinese Communist Party prevent users from remaining private by banning VPNs in the region.”

The development coincides with Elon Musk revealing that Apple is threatening to remove Twitter from the app store entirely over its support for – God forbid – free speech.

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MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Between the slave labor, the actions in support of the totalitarians, etc. one has to wonder why every virtue-signaling piece of shit progressive liberal (yeah, redundant) keeps supporting Apple with $1200 phone purchases, etc.

Anonymous
Anonymous

‘Cause they’re staring at their iStupids and don’t know nothin’.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yeah, Google is the best.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Not my implication. Our choices in phones is like our choices in political parties. Pieces of totalitarian shit with no other choices that are functional.

Eddy O
Eddy O

Not a problem for me. I have a $30 phone which I bought in 2012 and it works fine. I can call and receive calls. I’m not a slave to the iPhone, (always thought the ‘i’ was the abbreviation for ‘idiot’.

Hollow man
Hollow man

It’s not liberty they beholden to.

AKJOHN

Apple is another arm of the Globohomoschlomo Banksters.

James
James

My response to apple:

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MrLiberty
MrLiberty

I have to say that in many ways, the Chinese situation is actually more ready for real change than here in the US. There, they only have one party, so the ONLY choice is to rid themselves of it completely. Here, we pretend that the “other” choice is something better, when it is truly just the other wing of the bird of prey. Getting someone to support the idea that BOTH must go is way more challenging I think than getting folks in China to realize that the ONE must go. Not saying that anything will actually happen over there, but look what befell the Soviet Union when folks finally stopped supporting.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“There, they only have one party, so the ONLY choice is to rid themselves of it completely. Here, we pretend that the “other” choice is something better, when it is truly just the other wing of the bird of prey”

It’s The SAME ‘Party’ EVERYWHERE. And has been. Since the beginning. Both Times.

THIS is the last Time.

One Would need to be blind/deaf to deny it.

It’s but a question of ‘When’.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yep – people vs. those who seek to rule. Billions vs. thousands: it’s over if and when we say it is.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

So … just why aren’t ‘we’ deciding to end it?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Because “I” might be punished. Almost everyone is guided by immediate self interest. The day after tomorrow is very rarely part of that calculation.

Overthrowing TPTB would improve everyone’s lot long term, but that would require individual sacrifice. See above.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“Because “I” might be punished.”

Just what ‘Worth It’ % of the population do you fantasize Your White Knight ‘Interdiction’ is gonna save?

Fell for the whole “The French are Cowards!” for years. The ‘underground’? Prolly mostly Young. And couldn’t/wouldn’t accept things for what they REALLY were.

The dudes who coulda REALLY Fucked things up?

“my country has been a dead man walking since…”

The smart ones kept their heads down as much as possible, probably died of old age. As it SHOULD be.

Just WHAT do You suggest be done?

Good lord. Huge chunks of the people can’t even work their phones effectively, REFUSE to Read even a smidgen of the VAST resources online. For FREE! (yuuuge Seller!) Yet wonder why they can’t bake ANY kinda bread, successfully.

Hint: if You Have NO IDEA what You’re doin’? BETTER start reading. Or Not. up to the individual. The PROPER Tools are 90% of ANY Task. Word.

Many, Many, newbies. With Guns they really can’t shoot effectively, don’t know much about ’em…Never mind the thought of them being BEHIND You?

Good Luck. Really.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Yes, but perception is more powerful than reality.

Just for sh*ts & giggles
Just for sh*ts & giggles

We only have one party in the once great USA as well. If anyone thinks that the red/blue aren’t of one mind and philosophy, then please explain it to me or us. I need to know so I can convince myself I can vote my way out of this sham we call elections.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron

AAPL has moved ever more to the radical left since Steve Jobs died … I can’t wait for AAPL to dismiss about 50,000 US employees and send them back to India … or to ‘Window E’ if they’re actually natural-born US Citizens.

TampaRed
TampaRed

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