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We monitor 175 App Store storefronts to answer one question —

Is Public Opinion Print Edition censored by Apple?

Gone.

Public Opinion Print Edition is gone from every App Store storefront we test. It was last seen available on Jun 11, 2023.

214 tests on record·last checked 2 months ago

Why it is unavailable

Five things can put an app out of one App Store. Each is weighed below against what can be seen from outside — open a card for the reasoning.

  • A government or a court demanded itPossible

    and Apple complied. Apple publishes a count of these per country each year and never says which apps they were. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • Apple applied a rule, unaskedPossible

    either its own review guidelines, or its own reading of a local law, with nobody having demanded anything. This is the largest category in Apple's own removal figures by a wide margin, and it covers distribution permits as well as content — Apple kept a free Bible app out of mainland China in 2021 for want of one. Apple's 2025 App Store Transparency Report

  • The developer withheld itPossible

    freely, or under legal advice of their own, or because Apple's guidelines require that kind of app to be limited to certain countries. Switching a country off is easy for a developer to do in Apple's own tools: it needs no new version of the app, and it leaves no public trace other than the app being unavailable.

  • Something brokeUnlikely

    a rejected update, a lapsed certificate, a payment or licensing problem, a mistake nobody has got round to noticing.

  • A local rule about paying for itRuled out

    gambling licences, financial rules, tax — the kind of law that governs a transaction. Apple can obey every one of them by refusing the payment, which is why this is the only restriction we would accept and the only one that cannot touch a free app.

    • It is free, so Apple sells nothing here.
How this is weighed, and what it cannot tell you

Weighed from the evidence under each card, not from a model. There is no published figure for how Apple's removals divide up, so these are ordered words rather than percentages. For scale on the same-day counts: across the whole record an app leaves a storefront with fewer than two others, so a dozen at once is not a dozen coincidences.

None of this is certain, and a citation does not make it so: Apple naming a Chinese agency tells you what Apple said, not everything that happened. What can be said is that the readings alone cannot separate these five — a developer switching off a country and a government ordering it removed arrive at Apple's catalogue looking identical — and that nobody has ever measured how they divide across the App Store. The one careful study of the question was done on Google's store, using an error message Apple does not emit.

Apple publishes no record of which apps are unavailable in which of its App Stores. For the removals it makes on a government's demand it publishes the agency and the law behind every one — 2,045 of the 166,899 apps it removed during 2025 — and never which app. Where a reason reaches the public at all, it is usually because a developer chose to say so. Apple's App Store Transparency Report

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Public Opinion Print Edition

Developer: Gannett · Category: News · Released: Jun 24, 2011 · Rating: 2.1★

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0stores where available
42stores where blocked
2.54Bpeople behind the block
42of 175 stores tested
214tests on record

Life of this app

  1. Jun 24, 2011Released on the App Store
  2. Dec 2, 2019First tested by AppleCensorship
  3. Jun 11, 2023Last seen available anywhere
  4. Feb 14, 2024Gone from 42 storefronts
  5. Aug 19, 2026Most recent test

Testing history

One column per month, every month from the first reading to the last. Height follows how many readings we took that month; red is the share of them that found the app unavailable. An empty month is one nobody tested.

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Found availableFound unavailable

Availability by storefront

Every storefront we test, current status first. Data is a measurement, not a promise: each row carries its own date.

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AfghanistanAFUnavailableDec 31, 20242 years ago
AngolaAOUnavailableDec 17, 20242 months ago
Antigua & BarbudaAGUnavailableSep 13, 20233 years ago
AustraliaAUUnavailableJun 11, 20237 months ago
BelizeBZUnavailableJun 22, 20264 months ago
BotswanaBWUnavailableJun 11, 20239 months ago
Cape VerdeCVUnavailableJun 11, 20232 months ago
China (Mainland)CNUnavailableJun 11, 20237 months ago
Costa RicaCRUnavailableFeb 4, 20269 months ago
CyprusCYUnavailableAug 18, 20203 years ago
CzechiaCZUnavailableAug 9, 20233 years ago
Dominican RepublicDOUnavailableJun 11, 20233 years ago
FranceFRUnavailableMar 16, 20203 years ago
Hong KongHKUnavailableJun 18, 20264 months ago
HungaryHUUnavailableNov 27, 20239 months ago
IraqIQUnavailableJan 11, 20269 months ago
KazakhstanKZUnavailableOct 3, 20233 years ago
KenyaKEUnavailableDec 13, 20242 years ago
MaldivesMVUnavailableDec 31, 20233 years ago
MicronesiaFMUnavailableJun 11, 20233 months ago
MontenegroMEUnavailableAug 26, 20242 years ago
MontserratMSUnavailableJan 25, 20269 months ago
MozambiqueMZUnavailableJan 11, 20252 years ago
NamibiaNAUnavailableMay 8, 20242 years ago
NauruNRUnavailableAug 26, 20242 months ago
NepalNPUnavailableJun 11, 20232 years ago
New ZealandNZUnavailableOct 3, 20242 years ago
NigerNEUnavailableOct 31, 20233 years ago
QatarQAUnavailableMar 24, 20243 years ago
RussiaRUUnavailableJun 11, 20232 years ago
RwandaRWUnavailableJul 20, 20263 months ago
São Tomé & PríncipeSTUnavailableApr 5, 20267 months ago
SenegalSNUnavailableApr 16, 20252 years ago
South AfricaZAUnavailableApr 19, 20252 years ago
SwitzerlandCHUnavailableDec 29, 20233 years ago
TajikistanTJUnavailableSep 30, 20242 years ago
UkraineUAUnavailableJun 11, 20237 months ago
United Arab EmiratesAEUnavailableJun 11, 20232 months ago
United StatesUSUnavailableAug 9, 20232 months ago
UruguayUYUnavailableFeb 14, 20243 years ago
UzbekistanUZUnavailableJun 16, 202516 months ago
YemenYEUnavailableNov 7, 20233 years ago
AlbaniaALNot tested——0
AlgeriaDZNot tested——0
AnguillaAINot tested——0
ArgentinaARNot tested——0
ArmeniaAMNot tested——0
AustriaATNot tested——0
AzerbaijanAZNot tested——0
BahamasBSNot tested——0
BahrainBHNot tested——0
BarbadosBBNot tested——0
BelarusBYNot tested——0
BelgiumBENot tested——0
BeninBJNot tested——0
BermudaBMNot tested——0
BhutanBTNot tested——0
BoliviaBONot tested——0
Bosnia & HerzegovinaBANot tested——0
BrazilBRNot tested——0
British Virgin IslandsVGNot tested——0
BruneiBNNot tested——0
BulgariaBGNot tested——0
Burkina FasoBFNot tested——0
CambodiaKHNot tested——0
CameroonCMNot tested——0
CanadaCANot tested——0
Cayman IslandsKYNot tested——0
ChadTDNot tested——0
ChileCLNot tested——0
ColombiaCONot tested——0
Côte d’IvoireCINot tested——0
CroatiaHRNot tested——0
DenmarkDKNot tested——0
DominicaDMNot tested——0
DR CongoCDNot tested——0
EcuadorECNot tested——0
EgyptEGNot tested——0
El SalvadorSVNot tested——0
EstoniaEENot tested——0
EswatiniSZNot tested——0
FijiFJNot tested——0
FinlandFINot tested——0
GabonGANot tested——0
GambiaGMNot tested——0
GeorgiaGENot tested——0
GermanyDENot tested——0
GhanaGHNot tested——0
GreeceGRNot tested——0
GrenadaGDNot tested——0
GuatemalaGTNot tested——0
Guinea-BissauGWNot tested——0
GuyanaGYNot tested——0
HondurasHNNot tested——0
IcelandISNot tested——0
IndiaINNot tested——0
IndonesiaIDNot tested——0
IrelandIENot tested——0
IsraelILNot tested——0
ItalyITNot tested——0
JamaicaJMNot tested——0
JapanJPNot tested——0
JordanJONot tested——0
KosovoXKNot tested——0
KuwaitKWNot tested——0
KyrgyzstanKGNot tested——0
LaosLANot tested——0
LatviaLVNot tested——0
LebanonLBNot tested——0
LiberiaLRNot tested——0
LibyaLYNot tested——0
LithuaniaLTNot tested——0
LuxembourgLUNot tested——0
MacaoMONot tested——0
MadagascarMGNot tested——0
MalawiMWNot tested——0
MalaysiaMYNot tested——0
MaliMLNot tested——0
MaltaMTNot tested——0
MauritaniaMRNot tested——0
MauritiusMUNot tested——0
MexicoMXNot tested——0
MoldovaMDNot tested——0
MongoliaMNNot tested——0
MoroccoMANot tested——0
Myanmar (Burma)MMNot tested——0
NetherlandsNLNot tested——0
NicaraguaNINot tested——0
NigeriaNGNot tested——0
North MacedoniaMKNot tested——0
NorwayNONot tested——0
OmanOMNot tested——0
PakistanPKNot tested——0
PalauPWNot tested——0
PanamaPANot tested——0
Papua New GuineaPGNot tested——0
ParaguayPYNot tested——0
PeruPENot tested——0
PhilippinesPHNot tested——0
PolandPLNot tested——0
PortugalPTNot tested——0
Republic of the CongoCGNot tested——0
RomaniaRONot tested——0
Saudi ArabiaSANot tested——0
SerbiaRSNot tested——0
SeychellesSCNot tested——0
Sierra LeoneSLNot tested——0
SingaporeSGNot tested——0
SlovakiaSKNot tested——0
SloveniaSINot tested——0
Solomon IslandsSBNot tested——0
South KoreaKRNot tested——0
SpainESNot tested——0
Sri LankaLKNot tested——0
St. Kitts & NevisKNNot tested——0
St. LuciaLCNot tested——0
St. Vincent & GrenadinesVCNot tested——0
SurinameSRNot tested——0
SwedenSENot tested——0
TaiwanTWNot tested——0
TanzaniaTZNot tested——0
ThailandTHNot tested——0
TongaTONot tested——0
Trinidad & TobagoTTNot tested——0
TunisiaTNNot tested——0
TürkiyeTRNot tested——0
TurkmenistanTMNot tested——0
Turks & Caicos IslandsTCNot tested——0
UgandaUGNot tested——0
United KingdomGBNot tested——0
VanuatuVUNot tested——0
VenezuelaVENot tested——0
VietnamVNNot tested——0
ZambiaZMNot tested——0
ZimbabweZWNot tested——0

Testing asks Apple whether it will sell this app in that storefront, right now, by the same method the crawler has used since 2019. Your browser asks Apple directly, so the answer describes what Apple serves your connection — and if your browser cannot reach Apple at all, we ask on your behalf and say so. The result is a link: open it to see Apple's own answer and check ours. Readings are added to the record above; roughly a quarter of the readings taken each day come from people testing.

How we test

Availability is checked against Apple's own catalog servers for every storefront, the same way the App Store app asks. "Unavailable" means Apple's servers say the app cannot be offered in that country — it does not say who asked for the removal. Removals initiated by the developer and removals demanded by governments look the same from outside; the history and context on this page are how we tell them apart.