> Apple’s recent removal of Damus, a decentralised social media platform built on an open protocol backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, from its China App Store for violating domestic cybersecurity laws came as no surprise at all, according to the developer behind the new app’s technology.
> “I think it was to be expected, although it didn’t occur to me because I wasn’t actively aware of the extent of the Great Firewall,” the creator of the internet open protocol Nostr, who goes by the handle “fiatjaf” on social media, said in an interview via Telegram.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3209265/apples-removal-damus-social-media-platform-china-app-store-was-expected-developers-amid-beijings