It is interesting to see the company take a stand and not give in to censorship in the country. Going by the company’s tweets, the Pocket Casts app may probably never be back in China. “We understand this means that it’s unlikely that our iOS App will be available in China, but feel it’s a necessary step to take for any company that values the open distribution model that makes podcasting special,” Pocket Casts added.
From what it looks like, the CAC might have asked the company to remove a few controversial podcast shows from the platform and Pocket Casts might have denied, which probably led to the removal. Pocket Casts mentions that the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) contacted them through Apple a couple of days before Apple removed the app from the store. As such we won’t be censoring podcast content at their request,” wrote the developers of Pocket Casts in a tweet. We believe podcasting is and should remain an open medium, free of government censorship.
“Pocket Casts has been removed from the Chinese App store by Apple, at the request of the Cyberspace Administration of China.
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