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> Apple said ... that Unjected encouraged users to avoid using certain words to avoid detection. The first rule of censorship is: Anyone who opposes the censo
by dane-pgp 5y ago
> Apple said ... that Unjected encouraged users to avoid using certain words to avoid detection.
The first rule of censorship is: Anyone who opposes the censors will be censored.
> a review by Google Play ... found it hadn’t sufficiently policed user-generated content for misinformation.
Did no one stop to think that the presence of the words "policed" and "misinformation" together like this indicate that they have built something analogous to a "Ministry of Truth"?
- criticaltinker 5y agoNineteen Eighty-Four analogies aside, this article shouldn't be surprising to anyone who is critical of the walled-garden ecosystems of Apple, Google, et al. The bottom line is that these companies currently have a right to censor any app or developer - and by extension any user - as they please so long as the offender can be painted as violating a broad guideline. "“We’ve had to walk a censorship tightrope,” co-founder Shelby Thomson said. Unjected removed the social feed to get back in compliance on Google Play but Thomson said she plans to restore it, along with the flagged posts, and hopes to “stay under the radar.”" These days if you want to build an app with a social feed you're better off making it a web application, unless you enjoy walking such tightropes and risking all that you've built.