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that's fine. I'd prefer if official (public) business were conducted through public infrastructure through open protocols rather than via commercial walled-gard
by riffic 5y ago
that's fine. I'd prefer if official (public) business were conducted through public infrastructure through open protocols rather than via commercial walled-gardens.
They (being the House of Representatives) absolutely should own their namespace and operate under 'house.gov'.
Facebook and Twitter could even provide this service, as a commercially managed hosted endeavor (look at how Gmail is white-labeled as "Google Workspace" and sold as a service on a portable domain name).
- josephcsible 5y agoThe point is that when the government infrastructure refused to censor the "wrongthink" opinions, Apple and Google would ban any clients for those open protocols that don't hardcode a check to refuse to connect to those servers. And don't Google's Terms of Service apply even to Google's white-label services?
- riffic 5y agoyou think the app stores are going to ban clients that don't hard-code communication blocks for "house.gov"?
- josephcsible 5y agoYes. The precedent was set when they did it for Gab. And Apple and Google are private companies that can ban an app for any reason they want, right?