Damus mobile app banned in China

Decentralized societal web exertion Damus has been banned from operating successful mainland China, implicit concerns that its app includes contented that is amerciable successful China.

The mobile app which is simply a decentralized mentation of Twitter went unrecorded connected the AppStore connected Feb. 1, aft aggregate rejections.

Barely 24 hours aft its launch, the idiosyncratic number of the mobile app surged supra 45,000 and became the second-most popular societal web successful China.

However, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has moved to curtail its maturation by removing the app from the China App Store.  The CAC claimed that the Damus app includes contented that is amerciable successful China.

In addition, Damus is said to interruption “the provisions of the information appraisal of internet-based accusation services with an property oregon nationalist sentiment oregon susceptible of societal mobilization.”

The Nostr-based societal app was designed to springiness users implicit power implicit their information and contented portion eliminating the request for a KYC process.

The prohibition volition forestall users successful mainland China from being capable to download and entree the Damus mobile application. However, the app is disposable successful app stores successful different countries.

Meanwhile, Damus has experienced sustained maturation arsenic its App Store downloads person surpassed 56,000.

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