{"id":166953,"date":"2019-10-09T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=257739"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T07:03:21","slug":"china-state-media-slams-apple-over-protest-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/09\/china-state-media-slams-apple-over-protest-app\/","title":{"rendered":"China state media slams Apple over protest app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tChina\u2019s official state newspaper criticised Apple for allowing App Store users to access a service offering live updates on social unrest in Hong Kong, accusing it of helping rioters engage in illegal behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>People\u2019s Daily\u00a0wrote the developers of the HKmap Live app had &#8220;ill intentions&#8221; and effectively provided a &#8220;navigation service for the rioters&#8221;. The newspaper argued Apple&#8217;s approval &#8220;obviously helps&#8221; protestors.<\/p>\n<p>It added such &#8220;toxic apps&#8221; misrepresented the facts regarding Hong Kong and offended Chinese citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The HKmap Live app crowdsources the location of police and anti-government activity around the city and had been available on Google Play for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Apple previously rejected it due to concerns it encouraged illegal activity, but recently relented [1], BBC News reported. The app&#8217;s anonymous developer argued it is designed to keep people in Hong Kong safe and, in a tweet, said Apple had &#8220;finally made the right decision&#8221;.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/apple-lifts-ban-on-hong-kong-protest-map-app\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&rsquo;s official state newspaper criticised Apple for allowing App Store users to access a service &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/china-state-media-slams-apple-over-protest-app\/\">China state media slams Apple over protest app<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/09\/china-state-media-slams-apple-over-protest-app\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2161,3554,2048,2,2047,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-HqN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166960,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166953\/revisions\/166960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}