Sunday Yokubaitis, president of Golden Frog, a company that makes privacy and security software including VyprVPN, said its software, too, had been taken down from the app store. The removals signal a new push by China to control the internet. Last year, the company complied with what it said was a request from the Chinese authorities to remove from its China app store news apps created by The New York Times. Apple has operated its app store in China for many years with only the occasional run-in with the government. The VPN crackdown and Beijing’s move in December to target news sites indicates that China’s internet regulators have taken a deeper interest, and are exerting more control, over what is available on Apple’s China app store.

Source: New York Times July 29, 2017 10:39 UTC