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Apple blackmailed into removing Russian tactical voting app Navalny

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<p>The Russian government <a href="https://twitter.com/ioannZH/status/1438750081402953728" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">introduced a new law[/url] specifically to outlaw this app. The law doesn’t come into force until November, but both Apple and Google have removed the app ahead of this.</p>
<p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] has been blackmailed into removing from the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/app-store/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">App Store[/url] a Russian tactical voting app, Navalny, which was designed to help voters support the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.</p>
<p>Both Apple and Google have removed the app after specific company employees were threatened with “punishment” …</p>
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