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Apple's iTunes Movies and iBooks Stores Mysteriously Go Down In China (appleinsider.com)
tedlistens writes: China-based customers of the iTunes movies and books stores reported network errors beginning on Thursday. Apple did not comment, but Apple Insider offers an unverified report that the storefronts have been closed "due to a pending government investigation into Apple's business practices." Apple first opened its doors to its movie and e-book online stores in China last September, which included the activation of Apple Music services. While the music streaming services remain operational, the movie and e-book stores are not. China's censorship laws and strict regulations in general have been tough for U.S. companies like Apple to navigate. Last year, Apple was actively disabling its iOS News app for its Chinese customers, a move many believe to be in adherence of China's censorship policies. Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet Software and Services, denied those claims.
Cyber space is full of cyber terrorists just itching to launch cyber attacks against American cyber technology companies. Just another reason we need more cyber control out in the cyber world.
In Communist China, books read you?
Apple speaks a good game of pandering to the usual Leftist narrative here in the States. But that is free talk; they say a few things, give away a few iDildos, and their SJW audience fawns.
But when it comes to China, money is on the line. The government -- also Leftist -- is holding the market hostage by demanding that any companies who participate go along with the ideological censorship, which similar to that in the former USSR, prevents criticism of the State and its ideology of Leftism.
If Apple wants to show us that it is a "nice guy" company, it should turn down these China contracts. But in reality, to do so is business suicide. So the partnership between hippies and mass murderers continues much as it did in the 1960s, when Western hippies endorsed the USSR and the Viet Cong despite the nearly 100 million death toll of Communism.
I don't dog whistle: I say what I mean. That is rare in this day and age.
You can read what I think at Amerika and a nihilist website. You will notice nothing is hidden, even the tree hugger and Nietzschean stuff.
You might think you're fighting the grand Leftist fight against 14/88, but I am something far worse: I am 1788, and the return of common sense with a vengeance. You are obsolete. Deal with that however you find best :)
I live in China (in Jiangsu) and I still have access to iTunes, although my account is linked to the Canadian store front. It's flaky as per normal but still working fine even without a VPN.
I should have my wife use them more now... they can remind her how to do it
China's busy copying all the content from the iTunes movies / iBooks sites. They'll return to the internet later.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
Somebody at Apple must have sent an internal email to the Beijing sales office with "Panama Papers" in the text body.
This is China. They censor their people's access to things all the time, they have since before the days of Mao. It is a fascist country, there's nothing mysterious about it.