Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons(reclaimthenet.org) |
Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons(reclaimthenet.org) |
Perhaps someone should try and report apps from big national public service broadcasting stations (BBC, DR, NRK, SVT, etc). It shouldn't be hard to find some TV programmes on there that contains "sexual content and profanity".
Reporting is done here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...
It is annoyingly hard to find any good English articles about it but here is a Danish one https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/kultur/google-slettede-drs-app-til...
Found the Scandinavian, I think! Because it's Google, NPR/PBS or even just Netflix would probably work even more efficiently.
I mean, YT is full of actual nudity and more. So, when are they going to suspend themselves?
Unlike Apple they can't even feign not being anti-competitive.
Details are here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
My guess is that some user reported it, and send in that screenshot, which has led to the ban. It's very hard to make decisions on stuff like this just from a single screenshot.
I think people believe there is no alternative. I always write on these types of cases that distributed protocols are an alternative. I just get buried with no explanation.
However, my question is, why are all major platforms banning pornographic content (video, novel, illustrations, etc.)? Or, why do we even sometimes view them as degenerating? Isn't the fact that PornHub is so successful a proof that we, as humans, do enjoy porn?
Also, this might not be true since I didn't do a research, but I really felt that almost everyone reading this comment have at least enjoyed some form of porn in their lives. If they are so prevalent, why are we banning them?
Edit: Although I do believe YouTube should allow porn and GitHub should allow open source erotic games, but I am mainly talking about Apple App Store or Google Play Store not allowing sexually explicit apps.
However, that is not my expertise, so I can't say for sure that it is completely ok for teenager to watch porn.
Nevertheless, for the sake of this conversation, let's say, it is indeed really harmful for underage people to watch porn. Then, why don't Google or Apple just make a toggle? Or, since you already need an account to use Google Play or iOS App Store, just filter out all the porn apps when the users are deemed to be too young to properly enjoy porn. The fact that it is dangerous for a 6-year-old to drive a car does not mean cars should be banned for the entire humanity.
On the other hand, if watching porn for young people is indeed that harmful (enough for justifying banning them altogether on the largest 2 mobile app distribution platform), the future of humanity is already doomed, because they can already open up Google and search "porn" and start watching them.
Netflix and Youtube has disgusting content if not the former is now worse than LBRY and Google still gave Netflix a pass. If LBRY had the same content as Netflix and YouTube, Google would choose to ban LBRY 10,000 over, with the same reason.
What?
What other decentralized services are worth checking out?
You should definitely take a look into the Fediverse and PeerTube in particular. I personally wrote some articles to answer this particular question. I hope it helps :)
https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-20-what-is-the-fedive... BRIEF
https://torresjrjr.com/archive/2020-07-19-guide-to-the-fediv... LENGTHY
This is why we need to support open source hardware and mobile operating systems.
But the large companies work together to close the existing networks. So we also need things like mesh networks and alternative service providers.
But ultimately there has to be some democratic push to reclaim some long distance internet links for the people. Or build new ones.
The only way Google polices APK installs is via Play Protect which warns you of APKs that aren't commonly installed/marked as harmful, with an option to bypass the warning. You can also disable that.
How is that relevant? The law in any relevant place says you are not allowed to show porn to kids. Google has to follow that. Harmful or not is completely irrelevant same with the fact that kinds can use a browser to search porn. No one cares. Everyone just does whatever is needed to not get sued so they all do the same and delete visible unrequested/non-searched porn because that would trigger adults to sue. Its not about right/wrong its just money/lawsuits/PR damage etc.
The outrage over Cuties is some of the weirdest situations of political/cultural toxoplasma I've seen.
The movie has nothing that's considered abnormal to what pre-teens and teens are exposed and engage in modern western culture. Girls are exposed to the dances/ect that sexualize them everywhere from social media platforms (tiktok, ect) and in person (regular middle school/high school stuff). The dances in cuties are very meh in by those measurements.
The movie tries to take a look at this, "norm," and displays something that's somewhat normal in a movie format. It's especially weird that the movie got it's backlash from conservatives b/c the message is arguably somewhat conservative.
The story is a girl coming from a extremely conservative background embracing the supposedly pro-women modern liberal western culture. By showing this the character and the viewers question if modern western cultural attitudes to women and their sexualization is actually better than the treatment of women in conservative cultures.
SPOILERS: It ends with the character embracing some sort of middle path that leaves you asking if that's even possible.
Like if you believe in the backlash against Cuties and the sexualization of the kids in modern society, that backlash should be more directed a backlash against places like tiktok/ect that encourage pre-teens/teens to copy/perform sexualized dances for money/street cred.