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Blacklist is an out-of-date divisive term. We've moved on to "banlist" and "allowlist" thx.
No we have not. And we don't want to, so please stop this. You are free to call it anything you want, but don't tell us how to call it.
Blacklist is an out-of-date divisive term. We've moved on to "banlist" and "allowlist" thx.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26481781.
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See now here's the thing. I don't care who is "along side". No really. I don't. It's not that interesting. There will always be a total bastard who agrees with you. So what? I don't like prejudice. I don't like hatred of people and all the names it goes by but this makes zero difference to me. I recommend acting on principle and then not caring at all about who agrees. I really admire and respect the mostly Jewish AC…
The ACLU learned a thing or two from Charlottesville, even if you didn't. I doubt they'd make the mistake of putting "principles" before human lives today. But thank you for being so eager to say that you "don't care who" when "who" are literal Nazis. That is very interesting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: it unfortunately looks like you've been using HN primarily if not exclusively for ideological battle for almost a whole year. We ban accounts that do this, regardless of which ideology they're battling for or against. The reason is what I just mentioned: it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.
If you'd please review the site guidelines and use HN as intended, we'd be grateful.
Just a quick search in Google Play Store shows several apps that are similarly named including "Threesome Dating App for Couples & Swingers: 3rder". While I don't agree that they should be policing this content at all I think the inconsistency at which they do it is even worse. They won't hesitate to remove an app or your entire account and once they do it's impossible to talk to anyone. Meanwhile other similar apps…
For digital service/content providers Play-stores are a must-have.
For this kind of companies these platforms are a government like power, except that you cant really appeal.
We managed to reach a person. He indirectly threatened that we could lose our developer account if we continue to insist.
Also in our case similar apps were allowed to remain in the store.
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There are literal nazis who use the internet. And yet you still want to be able to log on. That is interesting. But a lot less interesting than you seem to think. I'm sure even you agree with me about something and that fact alone is unlikely to change my mind about whatever-it-is either. And I'm sure literal nazis agree with you about something and probably more than one thing. I counsel you not to care, while notin…
I'm not the one arguing they should be able to stay on. (Or you, for that matter.) I counsel you throw your "principles" in the bin where they belong. Maybe find some new, less toxic, more sound principles. Or just become a Republican. Why should I care?
Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, yeah them, successfully ran civil liberties cases against Jim Crow and also effectively fought racially segregated schools in court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
Do you stick with the idea the civil rights movement was good and to be supported, Jim Crow and segregation bad and to be opposed or abandon that idea because Fred Phelps is also an A1 top-shelf homophobic asshole?
There's the principle. I genuinely don't care that Fred Phelps supports the idea that race should not be important. It has no influence at all my belief. None. Martin Luther King, yes he has had some influence. Phelps? I genuinely don't care what he thinks about it when it comes to my thoughts on racial inequality. I don't count Phelps as a friend, I utterly reject the idea that I have anything to do with him at all.
But if you stick with your principle of making sure you're not on the same side as horrible human beings you've got to abandon supporting the struggle for racial equality.
Or the other choice is to abandon principle altogether. You have no rights, I have no rights, rights are granted whoever is liked and before you can say "How the f&^k did that happen?" The strongest always gets their way and their is no rule of law, no democracy, no freedom and no justice at all. You can probably find some pretty famous examples in history where this has been tried and how that went.
Combating the existence of the horrific is always used to take rights away and leads to something far worse.
And also, as an aside, it so happens that I am not a republican but I do know for a fact that rather a lot of registered republicans literally went to war against nazis and fought them bravely and well with some of those registered republicans paying for it with everything. So in taking on all republicans like you just did, look who you are beside there. The real thing that needed actual war to solve. It's just silly.
Make your argument using logic from facts. Is this a thing that is right and that I support for the right reasons? That's enough. Even when you're being shouted down. Even if some nasty idiot agrees with you for all the wrong reasons. And here's the kicker, you can still absolutely call out those nasty idiots who claim to agree with you for being what they are! Phelps is a nasty bit of work. The civil liberties movement was and is great. Done. Easy.
I guess this is what happens when Eric Schmidt is no longer around to set company culture: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2371719/Googles-Eri...
Just a quick search in Google Play Store shows several apps that are similarly named including "Threesome Dating App for Couples & Swingers: 3rder". While I don't agree that they should be policing this content at all I think the inconsistency at which they do it is even worse. They won't hesitate to remove an app or your entire account and once they do it's impossible to talk to anyone. Meanwhile other similar apps…
Monopoly power right there (yes I'm assuming someone I don't know on the internet is speaking the truth - the assumption may be wrong). What percentage of the mobile phone market is now closed to you? If you've got the supporting docs to that story it's a good one for any journalist who has an interest in silicon valley market power. Silicon valley monopoly power into a search engine will link up a bunch of newspaper…
I feel pretty helpless as ultimately Google has the power to decide who gets to play in their sandbox.
Is there not an open APK repository anyone can submit to? It could be a community run endeavor and research project even. We could develop software to detect APKs which exhibit possible malicious behavior and give them scores.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but isn't that F-Droid? But that's only for open-source apps.