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Erasure and Distribution · Current evidence

28.17% of 112,008 tested apps are unavailable in mainland China

The corpus-scale storefront comparison complements the smaller fixed panel with a much broader catalogue.

By Palimpsest ObservatoryAutomated evidence brief

28.17%apps unavailable · across 112,008 apps tested

What the record says

Finding. The current AppleCensorship corpus reports 28.17% unavailable among 112,008 tested apps for mainland China.

This report is scoped to apple-censorship. 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

  • Storefront unavailability can have policy, licensing, commercial or technical causes; the percentage alone does not identify cause.

Palimpsest addition

Instrument brief

live-reading · Current evidence

Palimpsest's view: apple-censorship is live. The current number is 28.2% over 112,008 apps tested. This is the instrument reading, not a national censorship rate.

Key number

  • 28.2% apps unavailable · 112,008 apps tested

Current number and denominator

  • The current apps unavailable is 28.2% over 112,008 apps tested.
  • The current AppleCensorship corpus reports 28.17% unavailable among 112,008 tested apps for mainland China.

Same-edition board context

  • Same-edition elevated layers: none declared. Other live lead or high signal ids: ddti, weibo-hotsearch, undertext, ooni-gfw, in-path-interference, censored-planet, ioda-outages, vantage-fusion, erasure-observatory, wayback, app-storefront, generative-firewall.
  • No editorial_priority or MAD score is treated as a finding on this reading.

What this reading does not show

  • Storefront unavailability can have policy, licensing, commercial or technical causes; the percentage alone does not identify cause.
  • 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

ddti (attention), weibo-hotsearch (attention), undertext (attention), ooni-gfw (network), in-path-interference (network), censored-planet (network), ioda-outages (network), vantage-fusion (network), erasure-observatory (erasure), wayback (erasure), app-storefront (erasure), 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

  • Storefront unavailability can have policy, licensing, commercial or technical causes; the percentage alone does not identify cause.
  • The companion copies newsroom templates only; it adds no interview, article body, or generative prose.

Analysis instrumentv-cd8dba15c64594cfbe14a46a · structured assessment · reading companion

Read the evidence

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