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Comment by jsmeaton | Hacker News Reader

Why? What is the complaint? What needed to change?

Lots of fear mongering here without any actual detail of changes requested or made, and the reasons.

From Mind's FAQ, this app appears to allow pornography, hate speech, and discussion of sensitive events (as long as it's tagged). All of these individually are against Play Terms of Service. Moreover, their content moderation team is a volunteer random selection of users, which is not compliant with the Google Play requirements for User-Generated Content.

Ah so it's a discussion forum a la Reddit.

Google fights "discussion of sensitive events". Why is this a problem?

For example, you aren't allowed to discuss the science behind lockdowns or epidemics unless you are parroting the official narrative.

This has been par for the course on Youtube recently. They also have been banning unofficial Covid-related apps.

Google Chrome is also offered via their Play Store and you can find even more ... interesting things with it. Maybe users should start reporting Chrome for making such sites accessible.

Don't give them any ideas. At some point people will notice that the same company that considers it reasonable to wipe out entire services because of the actions of a few of its users controls a global blacklist of websites that can't be worked around as well.

I'm waiting for the comments here on HN .... "Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge are private browsers, nothing stops you creating your own browser if you want to view conservative websites".

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