{"id":374212,"date":"2018-08-21T02:15:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-apple-pulls-illegal-apps-targeted-by-chinese-state-media\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T02:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T01:15:18","slug":"prison-planet-com-apple-pulls-illegal-apps-targeted-by-chinese-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-apple-pulls-illegal-apps-targeted-by-chinese-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Apple Pulls Illegal Apps Targeted by Chinese State Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEIJING\u2014Under fire from Chinese state media, Apple Inc.<\/span> AAPL 2.00% said it removed illegal gambling apps from its App Store in China\u2014a move that could help quell the latest challenge for the American tech giant in its most important market outside of the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGambling apps are illegal and not allowed on the App Store in China,\u201d Apple said in a statement Monday. \u201cWe have already removed many apps and developers for trying to distribute illegal gambling apps on our App Store, and we are vigilant in our efforts to find these and stop them from being on the App Store.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Apple had been criticized by Chinese news outlets for not doing enough<\/a> to filter banned content and applications. State broadcaster CCTV, which last month reported that Apple\u2019s app store allowed illegal gambling apps disguised as official lottery apps, said Sunday that 25,000 apps had been removed.<\/p>\n

Apple offers more than 1.8 million apps in China, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Apple didn\u2019t confirm the number of apps it took down or when it had removed them, but 25,000 would amount to about 1.4% of that total.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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