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@fedilab It sounds like Google doesn’t think apps on the Play Store deserve the same Section 230 style protections that Google themselves enjoy. @Gargron @tateisu

even though i have 5 languages listed in my bio i can only really speak fluently 2 and even then i frequently mix them
the polyglot life
We can warranty your 13 year old car for $150 a month!

The car books for $200.

Uh...

At this point it's worth more for it's rare manual transmission than it is as a car.

Uh....

Thank you for your time.
lol looks like google's kicking away all the fedi clients

@realcaseyrollins They will blame the violence on the right wing Boogaloo movement.

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

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

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