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Services iBooks Store, and iTunes Movies, owned by American Apple Corporation, blocked in China. This happened after the publication of the country’s limited content from foreign publishers on the Internet
The fact that the services for watching movies and reading books are not available in China, reported Reuters agency on Friday, April 22. When Reuters employee attempted to access the iBooks Store, and iTunes Movies, he saw a message in Chinese, that the services can not be used. representative of the regulator did not respond to Reuters query. “We hope that the books and films will again be available to our customers in China as soon as possible”, – said the agency representative of Apple in Beijing. He declined further comment
Chinese mediaregulyator -. The State Administration of Press, publishing, film, radio and television – demanded that Apple stop the operation of these services, April 21. According to the publication New York Times, citing two unnamed source. The reason is that in March 2016 in China came into force restrictions for foreign journalists in the country. From now on, any publisher of online content, including “text, images, maps, games, animations, audio and video recordings”, required to obtain a special government agency authorized to cooperate with any foreign company, or a citizen of a joint venture. Online media are also required to place all the equipment, servers and other storage devices in China and can no longer belong to foreigners or joint companies.
On these amendments mentioned and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin, whose article ” It is time to put an effective barrier to information war “appeared April 18 in” Kommersant-Vlast “magazine. He suggested the government to determine the “outside global Internet censorship in Russia” and learn from the experience of countries, “opposing the United States and its allies.” Among the provisions that could be moved to the Russian soil, – the resolution of the authorized body of executive power as a prerequisite to any cooperation with foreign online media, a ban on the employment of foreigners in the leadership of national media and colocation online media abroad, said Bastrykin.
Blocking iBooks Store, and iTunes Movies is not the first time that Apple services are available in China. Apple application for reading news News, which the company launched in 2015 and which is available to residents of the USA, the UK and Australia, also does not work in China. When users Apple News service of these countries are trying to access it in China, they see a message that his work “is not supported in this region.” An Apple spokesman in Beijing, said to Reuters, the service News company launched only a few countries, but was unable to comment on why in this service works in South Korea and Hong Kong, but is blocked in mainland China.
Greater China, which including Taiwan and Hong Kong, is for Apple’s second largest revenue received by the market and the first sales of the main product – iPhone. But sometimes there is an American corporation with resistance from Beijing and state media, who claim that the use of iPhone threatens national security.
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