Here are the content policies:
<a href="https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy/" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy/</a><p>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".<p>Reporting is done here: <a href="https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/contact/takedown" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...</a>
Really, because of spoof "nudity"?<p>I mean, YT is full of actual nudity and more. So, when are they going to suspend themselves?<p>Unlike Apple they can't even feign not being anti-competitive.
There is obviously a structural problem with them owning the marketplace that they are competing in.<p>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.
I am aware that in this case, it is just Google wrongly classify something that does not have explicit nudity as porn.<p>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?<p>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?<p>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.
ReclaimTheNet is an extremely biased source. Google’s decision looks unfair based on the information in this article, but I would rather suspend my judgment until other sources corroborate the content.
At this point, Google is beyond reason and is openly hypocritical. Open source? Yes. Open platforms? No. Even if they are competing against YouTube.<p>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.
Utterly despicable and unacceptable. I can’t tell if this is an anti-competitive move (since one successful decentralized service might threaten the entire ecosystem of centralized platforms) or if it is some sort of Google internal political activism (since decentralization avoids the censorship and deplatforming performed by centralized providers like Google). Or maybe it’s both. But regardless it is unacceptable and I am happy to have discovered LBRY. More about it at <a href="https://itsfoss.com/lbry/" rel="nofollow">https://itsfoss.com/lbry/</a><p>What other decentralized services are worth checking out?
I am actually unable to install the raw apk. After changing the allowed source setting and getting through the warnings, it says it is installing but at the end just says "App not installed".<p>This is why we need to support open source hardware and mobile operating systems.<p>But the large companies work together to close the existing networks. So we also need things like mesh networks and alternative service providers.<p>But ultimately there has to be some democratic push to reclaim some long distance internet links for the people. Or build new ones.
Not sure what all of the cellphone vendors who have forked Android "just in case Google become anti-competitive" are waiting for... this is clearly the moment.