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Apple has a rocky relationship with some iOS developers because of its
seemingly arbitrary decisions over what gets published and when and
now, because of a dumb miss, its being accused of putting profits ahead
of human rights in Myanmar by the founder of ProtonMail and ProtonVPN,
even though thats probably not what happened.
Proton founder Andy Yen writes that Apple blocked an important security
update to the companys privacy-protecting ProtonVPN software simply
because Apple didnt like the apps description, specifically this line:
Whether it is challenging governments, educating the public, or training journalists, we have a long history of helping bring online freedom to more people around the world. …