Gab.ai sues Google over Play Store rejection

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24 points·calvinbhai··6 comments

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/gab-the-right-wi... gives Google's explanation for the rejection.

It seems all that's required would be for gab.ai to explicitly disallow hate speech in their terms, but permit (and optionally profit from) it in practise. Like Twitter.

It does seem weird that according to Google you're not allowed to have a social network that draws the moderation boundary at legal speech and actually requires censorship.

Seemingly worse it appears as though a platform where the people posting are personally responsible for their own content is also prohibited. If your app connects people you apparently are not allowed to act as an impartial carrier. Better not let them know that Chrome and Hangouts should also be pulled.

This.

Absolutely terrifying that Google went from "Never censorship" to "Our users and customers must now enforce pur perspective and censor their users".

I am astounded.

Like the other poster said... shouldn't alternative web browsers be banned too?

If that is the problem, why are browsers on the Play store?

Wouldn't a gab client behave the same way, fetching and sending content from the internet?

You can make this exact argument for any app.

So, no.

Precisely my point. A general purpose machine should be able to run general purpose tasks, and that understanding should relieve its manufacturer from any blame, ending the PR problem for google.

Just as firefox still GETs hate speech if you tell it to.

Or would you like google's DNS to just not resolve requests for gab as well?

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