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I'm alive, I'm not dead, etc.

Picked up some ed-tech work! Hacking on a site that kids use to learn to code. (Gave the dude friend prices as a result.)

Fundamentally, I'm not an English-speaking resident and my app doesn't include any user tracking. It is unrealistic for me to "moderate" the servers via the app.

I was notified that @tateisu's Mastodon app "Subway Tooter" has received a warning from the Google Play Store citing user-generated content that "incites discrimination".

A Mastodon app does not host or promote any content. The user types the address to connect to. The responsibility of moderating resides with that server. So unless Google is going to drop Chrome, Firefox and Opera from its platform, this is completely out of line.

Source in Japanese:

mastodon.juggler.jp/@tateisu/1

@NBForrest My point being if this was a race war, blacks wouldn't be killing each other. I mean Americans who agreed with each other didn't kill each other during the Revolutionary War.

Here's the thing you gotta understand about war: there are these things called "sides", where people decide to unify around what they have in common (ideology or skin color or height or whatever), and the members of these "sides" coordinate how to attack and defend against their enemies.

If blacks are killing blacks, they aren't propagating a race war.

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.

toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/1047

mastodon.social/@Gargron/10476

@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship

@NBForrest

> Totally one-sided

Yes as blacks kill blacks more than they kill whites, what a race war!!!

@cy @realcaseyrollins@kafuka.me @freemo @valleyforge

It's weird cuz were the officers defending themselves? Yes. Did they overreact? Also yes. How should this be handled legally? I have no idea. 🤷🏾‍♂️

@NBForrest If you don't like black people just day you don't like black people. But don't claim that the race war you always wanted is here when it's not.

@NBForrest Oh that's right this is the part where we're supposed to ignore the fact that black people kill black people more often than white people so that we can pretend that everything is about race right?

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