Edit for clarity: I interpret "facilitates, enables, or encourages an activity – that is not legal in all the locations in which the app is available" to mean that the act of making a Bitcoin transaction is illegal in certain jurisdictions.
Edit for clarity: I interpret "facilitates, enables, or encourages an activity – that is not legal in all the locations in which the app is available" to mean that the act of making a Bitcoin transaction is illegal in certain jurisdictions.
USA: “We all recognize that virtual currencies, in and of themselves, are not illegal,” Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general at the Justice Department’s criminal division, said at the hearing. Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022288065_b...
China: "The People’s Bank of China [...] has stopped short of banning the world’s most popular digital currency outright". IOW they still allow people to trade bitcoins, if they wish to. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/12/china_bank/
Thailand: the Bank of Thailand may display an anti-Bitcoin stance, but they have no legislative power to declare Bitcoin illegal: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=264389.0;all
When Bitcoin interacts with existing financial services, the regulator may decide to not allow those interactions to occur. This is no reflection on Bitcoin itself which is not illegal.
In regard to China specifically they explicitly said last week that it is still legal for private Chinese citizens to use Bitcoin.
Would you be mad at Walmart for not selling a new supplement that was of "disputed legality"?
(But both issues are easily sidestepped so I don't care very much...)
There are apps to access Reddit in the app store.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/60
> Criminal liability for complicity in another’s suicide.
> (1)A person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the suicide of another, or an attempt by another to commit suicide, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
This law is mostly used to prevent more active assistance in suicide, but it is also used to prevent people giving advice about how to complete suicide.
So, that's one current sub reddit.
In the past there were jailbait subreddits. I never visited so I have no idea about the content, but English law is stricter than US law around images of people under the age of 18.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1qa5ff/what_is_th...
Not "Your app is illegal somewhere," when this claim is dubious at best.
To me it is clear that Apple tries to stifle adoption and innovation in the Bitcoin area by disallowing those apps on their platform.