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You also have to play by the "US rules" which means no nudity or anything that would get you kicked out of the Apple App Store. It is a self censorship which i

You also have to play by the "US rules" which means no nudity or anything that would get you kicked out of the Apple App Store. It is a self censorship which is just as bad if not worse.

adventured 9y ago
It's perfectly reasonable for a platform to have its own rules as to what it considers appropriate content. There are no major platforms anywhere on earth that do not have their own subjective rules for content. Most, for example, will not allow you to post all sorts of extreme, particularly gruesome violence & abuse content. US rules do not mean no nudity. You can post nudity to Twitter for example, they have an approach to handle that. You can post nudity on Reddit, they have an approach to handle that. You can post nudity on Snapchat. Google images has truly immense amounts of nudity within it, that you can freely search if you care to; the same is true of Bing.
mc32 9y ago
The US is not equal to Apple and vice versa. You have alternatives to the App Store. In China the App Store does not get to determine what's acceptable and not, it's the gov. But back to the matter at hand, we're talking about the kerbing of political freedom. Sometimes you have to submit, in these cases, you don't have a choice. As Bond's villains are wont to say, "your only choice is to not play" but that gives the native players complete control over the market, as they will be happy to comply -and you only have your principles to point to --but that's an illusion because someone else is breaking them in your stead, so the cause is effectively broken. And given we don't reciprocate [the tactics], that means those players one day will get to compete against you in your own territory... It's a prisoners' dilemma where you know what your "accomplice"/adversary will chose to do in advance.
- supergirl 9y ago
  US = corporations. Look at the war on fake news. This started from politics. Now the corporations are scrambling to implement it. It doesn't matter how many alternatives to App store US has, they will all implement it. And obviously, if a US court decides a video needs to be blocked, it will be blocked by all corporations (likely it will be blocked globally), without making the news. It's only news if it's Russia. You are suckered by PR if you believe FB or any other corporation has any other principles apart from making money.
  - candiodari 9y ago
    And it's yet another clear illustration what the whole "Fake News" effort is about. It's not even about meddling in elections, it's making sure some rich sleazeballs prostitute pics don't make it to their wives, or the press. And of course, that when that does happen, "revenge" is exacted and traces of it get removed.

You also have to play by the "US rules" which means no nudity or anything that would get you kicked out of the Apple App Store. It is a self censorship which is just as bad if not worse.

adventured 9y ago

It's perfectly reasonable for a platform to have its own rules as to what it considers appropriate content. There are no major platforms anywhere on earth that do not have their own subjective rules for content. Most, for example, will not allow you to post all sorts of extreme, particularly gruesome violence & abuse content. US rules do not mean no nudity. You can post nudity to Twitter for example, they have an approach to handle that. You can post nudity on Reddit, they have an approach to handle that. You can post nudity on Snapchat. Google images has truly immense amounts of nudity within it, that you can freely search if you care to; the same is true of Bing.

mc32 9y ago

The US is not equal to Apple and vice versa. You have alternatives to the App Store. In China the App Store does not get to determine what's acceptable and not, it's the gov. But back to the matter at hand, we're talking about the kerbing of political freedom. Sometimes you have to submit, in these cases, you don't have a choice. As Bond's villains are wont to say, "your only choice is to not play" but that gives the native players complete control over the market, as they will be happy to comply -and you only have your principles to point to --but that's an illusion because someone else is breaking them in your stead, so the cause is effectively broken. And given we don't reciprocate [the tactics], that means those players one day will get to compete against you in your own territory... It's a prisoners' dilemma where you know what your "accomplice"/adversary will chose to do in advance.

supergirl 9y ago
US = corporations. Look at the war on fake news. This started from politics. Now the corporations are scrambling to implement it. It doesn't matter how many alternatives to App store US has, they will all implement it. And obviously, if a US court decides a video needs to be blocked, it will be blocked by all corporations (likely it will be blocked globally), without making the news. It's only news if it's Russia. You are suckered by PR if you believe FB or any other corporation has any other principles apart from making money.
- candiodari 9y ago
  And it's yet another clear illustration what the whole "Fake News" effort is about. It's not even about meddling in elections, it's making sure some rich sleazeballs prostitute pics don't make it to their wives, or the press. And of course, that when that does happen, "revenge" is exacted and traces of it get removed.