Google removes Catalan referendum app from Google Play after court order

The spanish government is trying to ban everything related to the referendum: physical urns, ballot papers, websites and apps, violating the most basic human rights. However, for each ban, 10 new websites/apps/bots will pop up. I created a chatbot so that people can vote at referendumvirtual.cat and it went viral in the last 48h. People will always find ways to excercise freedom of expression and decide its own future in peace.

Just a bit of feedback. This weekend there is a referendum in Cataluña, a province of Spain, about their independentism. This is not supported by the central government and it is consider illegal, and that is the reason the app was removed from the PlayStore, the court ordered it.<p>Nothing so see here unless you want to talk about politics.<p>EDIT: as you want to talk about politics, them you should have a bit of background. I think this is a good video (spanish): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nbeyN2fuz_4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=nbeyN2fuz_4</a>

I often wonder at what point should we (as programmers) ignore a countries ruling if we disagree with it.<p>(Note I&#x27;m not arguing for or against here, I don&#x27;t know enough about the situation but thought it may be an interesting conversation).<p>We (generally) have the knowledge to get around most restrictions, some of us can even bypass enforced walls.<p>I do wonder what it would take for a large subset of techs to say &#x27;screw this, we&#x27;re going to flood their airwaves, satlinks, reroute all out out traffic&#x27; etc. (Yes I know this is an impossibility, I&#x27;m theorizing here).<p>Edit(fat thumbs(

notice that the app is still usable from elsewhere, it is only banned in the spanish market app (source: I have just downloaded it from france).

This is one area in which Android is <i>morally</i> superior to iOS.<p>Even if an app is pulled from Google&#x27;s app store, you can still download and install the app from an APK.<p>Despite you being the nominal owner of your iOS device, Apple gives you no such option.

Pretty sad to see this happening in a western country, in the EU no less.

Do no evil indeed

This is very bad, people should be able to install any app that they want as long as the app manufacturer &#x2F; owner is ok with it. and they should be able to keep it on their own device for as long as they wish. Google or a government shouldn&#x27;t have any say in this

Good. We should be striving for a more integrated world, not a world of separatism.<p>People are naturally tribal. But tribalism must always be rejected. People who hold onto tribal identities are excited by the prospect of political independence, but unless real conditions for that group are made genuinely intolerable, there is no excuse for separatism.<p>Catalan is one of the wealthiest parts of Spain. They are not being oppressed.