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Wisdom of any legislation aside, I'm curious how you can effectively "ban" a program or a website. It seems futile to ban the distribution of software, and whi
by soylentcola 3y ago
Wisdom of any legislation aside, I'm curious how you can effectively "ban" a program or a website.
It seems futile to ban the distribution of software, and while you can get ISPs to block access to an IP/range, there are easy ways around this. See also: torrents of unlicensed-everything and the use of mirrors, proxies, etc. to access the sites that index them.
Not saying it wouldn't put a dent in use, but if all I had to do was get a copy of the installer I'd hardly consider that "banned". All sorts of software is technically illegal to distribute or acquire but it doesn't exactly seem to stop people who want it. In this case there wouldn't even be DRM to crack (like on a game or Photoshop or whatever).
- dylan604 3y agoNaturally, this is where Apple's walled garden comes to play. Ban the app from the walled garden, and the lack of ability of side loading apps becomes the greatest defense of national security. do your part America!!!
- gruez 3y agoEven a minor roadblock like a DNS ban would be enough to cripple the app, in terms of market share. Think about it, the target audience of the app is someone who wants to mindless scroll through short video clips. Do you think they're going to download tor browser, find the darknet site where you can get an unofficial copy, and jump through a dozen hoops to sideload that on their phone? No, they're just going to switch to instagram reels or youtube shorts.
- paulddraper 3y ago> how you can effectively "ban" a program or a website Two words: App. Store.