maybe a stand-alone article could be done on this?

Also if a mod sees this, I think a name change to Airdrop Censorship would be better


most of these sources can be found in the summary inside of the main apple article


https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23450967/apple-airdrop-limited-china-goverment-protests

https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/17/apple-globally-censoring-this-iphone-communication-feature-deserves-renewed-scrutiny/


https://qz.com/1660460/hong-kong-protesters-use-airdrop-to-breach-chinas-firewall