CUPERTINO, Calif.—Graduate student Han Wang started a seven-day hunger strike at Apple headquarters on Dec. 5. He is urging the tech giant to revoke its AirDrop restrictions in mainland China, where “A4 protesters” are counting on the Bluetooth-based technique to evade the communist regime’s censorship.
Axios reported that a Nov. 9 Apple iOS update restricted AirDrop sharing features only in the Chinese market, by setting a fixed 10-minute limit to accept files from everyone.
Wang said this is the reason he is staging a hunger strike.
A sign demanding accountability from Apple during a hunger strike in Cupertino, Calif., on Dec. 7, 2022. (David Lam/NTD)
“In China, people are only allowed to use AirDrop for 10 minutes—it’s ridiculous. And it only happened after one week of the A4 Revolutions,” he told NTD, a sister media of The Epoch Times. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence.”…