Apple will take a rare shareholder grilling about free speech after it removed a map app used by Hong Kong protesters
from its App Store has proven especially controversial. HKMap Live allowed Hong Kongers to track the location of police in the territory.
Though the app was purportedly meant to help locals avoid getting caught up in police-protestor clashes, Apple CEO Tim CookAccording to an internal company memo obtained by Bloomberg, Cook told Apple staff the app was being used to "victimize individuals and property where no police are present," and further said he had received "credible information" that the app was being used in this way.
Yet the tech giant's removal of the app was widely interpreted as Apple kowtowing to the Chinese state. Soon after the internal memo was reported,Business Insider has contacted SumOfUs for comment.
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