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Erasure and Distribution · Current evidence

60% of the 10-app panel is unavailable in China's storefront

The fixed panel compares China and US storefront results in the same round, with transient lookup failures separated.

By Palimpsest ObservatoryAutomated evidence brief

60%delisting rate · across 10 apps tracked

What the record says

Finding. The current panel finds 60% of 10 tracked apps unavailable in the China storefront.

This report is scoped to app-storefront. It does not merge unlike instruments or infer a cause from co-movement.

How it was measured

See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed

What this cannot establish

  • A fixed app panel is transparent but not representative of the entire App Store catalogue.

Palimpsest addition

Instrument brief

live-reading · Current evidence

Palimpsest's view: app-storefront is live. The current number is 60% over 10 apps tracked. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.

Key number

  • 60% delisting rate · 10 apps tracked

Current number and denominator

  • The current delisting rate is 60% over 10 apps tracked.
  • The current panel finds 60% of 10 tracked apps unavailable in the China storefront.

Same-edition board context

  • Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: event-flags, ddti, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, inside-view, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, apple-censorship, cny-fix-gap, data-darkness, generative-firewall.
  • No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.

What this reading does not show

  • A fixed app panel is transparent but not representative of the entire App Store catalogue.
  • The brief does not assign motive, identify a person, merge unlike denominators, or treat a missing reading as a zero.
  • See the complete embedded upstream payload and its raw feed

Elevated peers this edition

event-flags (command), ddti (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (network), inside-view (network), ioda-outages (network), vantage-fusion (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), apple-censorship (erasure), cny-fix-gap (economy), data-darkness (economy), generative-firewall (models)

Counterreadings

  • A current or withheld instrument value is not independent corroboration of any publisher article, and it is not a cause.
  • Co-movement with another live signal on this edition is layer context, not a shared rate or a coordinated action.

Limitations

  • A fixed app panel is transparent but not representative of the entire App Store catalogue.
  • The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.

Analysis instrumentv-95cef1a87a8e8be9c7fb24c9 · structured assessment · reading companion

Read the evidence

The exact source reading is app-storefront-latest.json. The structured version of this dispatch is published beside the article.