Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies::NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.

  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Jesus Christ, this is I getting nsane. When did it become unacceptable to say that genocide is bad?

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      7 months ago

      The article says that the app description said something about “killing children”.

      It’s not really surprising google removed it. I mean they could’ve just edited the description or whatever but… policy I guess.

      Sounds like it will be back any minute.

      • Андрей Быдло@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Google probably doesn’t have a stance here. They just sanitize everything for you to consume without a second thought. I wonder if it violated some children-related policies.

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      7 months ago

      Capitalism taking its natural course of prioritizing capital/profit over human lives.

      Join/organize protests and Socialist movements if you want change.

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      7 months ago

      It’s probably just an antimalware bot going wild. An unlucky filter somewhere matching “israel” (i had to regex-process invoices once, same shit), blown out of proportion by the culture of outrage doing it’s thing.

      But now that Google is forced to admit to one side, they will probably prefer to say nothing and just take the blame. It will be forgotten in a month anyway.