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Why is there not even lip service paid to consistent enforcement?
by tspike 3y ago
Why is there not even lip service paid to consistent enforcement?
- Spivak 3y agoBecause running a global service in multiple sovereign jurisdictions makes it impossible to have consistent enforcement. Would you have it so only the laws of the country of the company's HQ matters? If you mean why isn't Google bringing the banhammer down on every app that fails to meet the criteria isn't that what you want? Allow as much as possible until a government complains?
- ceph_ 3y agoIt's a slot machine game. Seems like it's being enforced properly in this scenario.
- janoc 3y agoBecause they enforce when someone complains. They aren't going to proactively ban stuff unless they really have to (e.g. something that is very obviously illegal/scam/etc.) So if nobody complained about the other apps, they didn't get banned. It is that easy. That someone else does something that violates those policies/laws too doesn't mean that you get a free pass, unfortunately.
- tspike 3y agoI'd buy that if the app stores weren't proactively rejecting apps for the same reasons they fail to enforce on others.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoMaking it consistent across different national laws means ignoring those laws. Does anyone think Google should just ignore national laws as a general policy?
- mrguyorama 3y agoOnly the ones they don't like.
- graypegg 3y agoConsistant enforcement means “local laws are consistently applied”. There isn’t one globally recognized list of content moderation standards.