New report shows the “staggering” extent of Apple’s App Store censorship

Apple Censorship, a GreatFire.org site that monitors and reports about instances of what it calls Apple’s active censorship of App Stores around the world, has come up with a new report that claims to show a clear pattern of politically-driven censorship happening globally.

The apps targeted with censorship the most are from the news, political, and information sharing category, the site said, concluding that Apple’s censorship follows the lead of particular governments.

The latest report in the Censored on the App Store “series” goes into the details showing the scale at which the US giant makes apps unavailable in its be-all and end-all – as far as developers and Apple users are concerned – stores.