An app that allowed people in China to skirt the nation’s internet ban to use Facebook and Google launched last week — then it disappeared

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Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images An app that allows people in China to use Facebook, Google, and other foreign platforms — which are blocked in the Communist nation — has disappeared from app stores, according to CNBC. The Tuber app, backed by a subsidiary of China-based Qihoo 360, launched last week, including on Apple and Huawei’s app stores. It is now reportedly unavailable on both. China has a track record of censoring the internet for its citizens, restricting the kind of content they are able to access to through websites and other services. Internet users in China have been able...