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Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store
(www.engadget.com)
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I've seen shit on X far worse than the shit in Doki Doki in literally every way possible. Why is their app still available for download? Fuck you, Google.
Maybe two companies deciding what apps are good for 99.9% of smartphone users isn't a good thing? Perhaps our trust has gone a little too far? I like your sentiment, it's time to be furious about this.
I mean, if they ban twatter, poor pedos loose the ability to conveniently generate csam, and pedos are pretty much a (the?) protected minority nowadays. Arguably, also applies to nazis, but assuming they can read is a stretch, so they can simply use any note taking app instead
X == Google. Definitely how it works.
No. X is an app that's a sizable on google Play. If they are banning dokindoki, why not ban X, which has far worse shit?
That's what they meant. is the one doing the banning, so it makes sense to criticise it even if they are not the owners of X. Reading comprehension.
The very same app that almost got removed from Google Play (and Apple's App Store) for ToS violations such as planning to disable account blocking functionality?
Yes, that is indeed how it works.
Please explain why you think CSAM, gore, and revenge porn aggregator X is the entire internet and try to do it without being arrested
As much as Lemmy 🤷♂️
Knew you couldn’t. I hope you know some real people who haven’t cut you out of their lives yet
It's just someone manufacturing rage bait. Ignore them and they'll go away
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Zero? Yeah I guess that makes sense.
Why are you talking about the internet as a whole when the context is apps on the play store, a (extremely poorly but yet) curated subset?
No one is talking about banning X as a whole. Well, you, since you misunderstood apparently.
You forgot an “/s” because yes that is a fair criticism toward google.
Banning this game under that logic would be just as dumb as banning most of the internet and if their rules where enforced consistently then that is what they should do.
But the contextual key here is that they should keep the game on their store and maintain consistently enforced guidelines of what is actually not allowed.