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You do realize that google's policy isn't just targeting the "corona is fake news" crowd, right? The wording says any app "referencing COVID-19" not published/e
by rndgermandude 6y ago
You do realize that google's policy isn't just targeting the "corona is fake news" crowd, right? The wording says any app "referencing COVID-19" not published/endorsed by the government or a public health organization got to go.
If google applied this consistently it should have to ban the following apps: Google Chrome[1], Firefox[1], Opera[1], Google[2], Google News[3], Google Podcast[2], Netflix[4], Youtube[3], Play Store[2, 3], any news/journalism organization (including CNN, PBS, NYTimes, BBC (uk), ARD/ZDF (de)), reddit[3], twitter[3], facebook[3], and plenty plenty more.
But at least Jair Bolsonaro is still free to put out fake news apps if he wants because he is head of the government...
[1] Allows access to sites such as google[2].
[2] Allows access to "fake news". And it has a covid warning section linking to (thereby endorsing) non-approved sources such as wikipedia.
[3] Displays/Links to a lot of non-government approved journalism and "journalism".
[3] e.g. https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81273378 https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81273378