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I think you are right that "app stores" are the most convenient place to enforce this. They get a fairly good effectiveness with low effort. However I doubt th
by kevincox 6y ago
I think you are right that "app stores" are the most convenient place to enforce this. They get a fairly good effectiveness with low effort.
However I doubt that not having them would stop the bans, it would take a bit more motivation, and a lot more effort but unless we have a truly censor-resistant solution I suspect the government would still put in the effort.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoTake a look at how that worked out for attempts to suppress the DVD/CSS ripping algorithm. When software is source code, not just binary blobs, it starts to enjoy (some|more) protection under the 1st amendment.
- js4ever 6y agoHistory showed us that governments are lazy and will go after the biggest fish and tons of small actors will evade the gov ban. So I believe no app store (or allow sideloading) is better for the peoples