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Google and Apple (and everyone else) have a blanket ban about COVID since the world has been littered with apps and scams trying to profit off the pandemic. Yo
by user5994461 6y ago
Google and Apple (and everyone else) have a blanket ban about COVID since the world has been littered with apps and scams trying to profit off the pandemic.
Your app promotes COVID content (among other things) so it gets banned on sight. It's super clear cut, don't do that!
You can try to implement a filter to remove articles with specific keywords (covid, virus, pandemic, etc..). Besides that, don't know if it's good enough to pass requirements for an app (don't think a simple web reader can pass).
Please don't call that censorship. To call this censorship is a disgrace to countries where there is real censorship, people being beheaded for saying anything.
- eeegnu 6y agoA term isn't dictated by its most extreme usage, the case you're describing is authoritarian censorship. Even having to suggest that a filter that removes keywords apple doesn't want their users to see, just may be sufficient for your app to be approved, hints strongly that there is a kind of censorship in place. Arguably not all censorship is even bad, chat filters for obscene words in certain contexts make perfect sense.