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Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.
Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship
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@freemo welp, that's what we get for the mobile os duopoly 🤷♀️
@freemo i guess we are going to have real problems: a generation which can't use anything which doesn't hold their hands (my mother is more computer savy than most teens), and two giant companies dictating what software is ok to run on our own devices.
that's what's the price for dumbing down complicated things (computers) so that supposedly everyone can use them without putting at least some work into it. it's just like how the fediverse is a tad bit more hard to use than twitter.
