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"and demands mobile app stores make the app unavailable for Montana residents." Oh so now they've made an enemy of Google & Apples legal teams? Because those
by Andaith 3y ago
"and demands mobile app stores make the app unavailable for Montana residents."
Oh so now they've made an enemy of Google & Apples legal teams? Because those two aren't going to want to set a precedent for all sorts of bans across random jurisdictions.
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- citizenkeen 3y agoThey already do? Plenty of apps are banned in various countries, if I recall correctly.
- didntknowya 3y agoIt's usually the publishers who choose what countries they appear in rather than the store itself.
- flangola7 3y agoThere's many country level bans by the store and have been for years.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoBut no sub-national level bans, that are enforced, at least from what I've heard.
- flangola7 3y agoAt a technological level there is no difference. If there's a reliable mechanism for geo-walling content they can carve up the map however they wish. Nothing says it can only follow national borders.
- nickthegreek 3y agoThese are states… should there be city level bans too? Where does it end. Now they need 50 different app stores just for the US customers? Does DC get its own? How should we handle US territories… I think Apple and a Google have plenty reason to fight this.
- friend_and_foe 3y agoStates are sovereign except for specific roles and powers explicitly reserved for the federal government or otherwise restricted from the states. These aren't provinces, theyre more like European countries in the EU.
- thr-nrg 3y agoInterstate commerce is specifically the power they don't have.
- thehappypm 3y agoYouTube being a direct competitor to TikTok, I doubt Google will object
- friend_and_foe 3y agoThey already did when they geoblocked content in European and Asian countries to appease their authoritarian leaders in order to profit from their large markets.