‘That Was Fast’: China Bans Decentralized Twitter-Like App Over ‘Illegal Content’

‘That Was Fast’: China Bans Decentralized Twitter-Like App Over ‘Illegal Content’
Customers shop at apple's flagship store for smart products on Nanjing Road pedestrian street in Shanghai, China, Feb. 23, 2022. Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Aldgra Fredly
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Apple has reportedly removed Damus, a Twitter-like social media app backed by the nostr protocol, from its Chinese app store owing to content deemed “illegal” by the Chinese communist regime.

Damus shared on Feb. 2 a screenshot of an Apple notification, stating that the app failed a security assessment of “information services with attribute of public opinions or capable of social mobilization.”

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