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China Blocks iTunes Access
Author: Chris20 Aug
The 2008 Summer Olympics being held in Beijing are closer and closer to the end. But we’re not going to talk about any sports and special performances today. We are however taking an angry look at China which cut all iTunes access. Every person in China trying to get online to an iTunes Store will not be able to do so. Why would anyone do such a thing? Well it appears that quite a few athletes have been downloading and listening a pro-Tibetan music album.
The album is called “Songs for Tibet” and artists like Sting, Moby, Suzanne Vega and Alanis Morissette are behind the 20 tracks. The iTunes Store released it on August 5th, just in time to make it to iPods around the world before the official start of the competition.
Well how about that for freedom of speech. Just because people choose to manifest their beliefs, a whole country, and quite a big one, is locked out of iTunes. When will this change? Is Apple going to do anything about it? We’ll have to wait and see…
Tags: Apple, China, iTunes, Mobile News, Mobile Software, Olympics
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14 Responses for "China Blocks iTunes Access"
I don’t know at whom I should direct more of my wrath…the CCCP for being insecure enough to think that the opinions of a few athletes could ever affect the status quo in the Middle Country, or those athletes who don’t understand how things work here and now ruined it for those of us who actually live here and will continue to do so post-Olympiad.
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