[danso]

According to the TFA, Apple (or any foreign company) is not obligated to block traffic at the device-level in the manner described by TFA:

> This censorship occurs despite the fact that when in China a cell phone using a foreign SIM is not subject to the firewall restrictions (all traffic is tunneled back to your provider first), so Google, Twitter, Facebook, et al all work fine on a non-mainland China SIM even though you’re connected via China Mobile or China Unicom’s network

[esmi]

This is only partially correct. One has to have a foreign sim and have data roaming turned on (which implies paying the higher rate). The author didn’t state if they did both.

https://www.freedomsurfer.com/firewall/