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Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by mvdtnz »

ajross wrote: post #40
madaxe_again wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither uncle tom’s cabin nor the diary of Anne Frank advocated slavery nor genocide. I don’t think anything should be outright censored - but I also don’t think that “Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.”, or The Levite’s Concubine, for instance, is necessarily something you want to spring on people, and if we’re goin…

Again, distinguishing "advocacy" as your criteria for censorship is censoring on interpretation . I know you are sincere in your opinions about this, they won't change, and I even share them. They are still our opinions. We share the planet with people who think, equally inflexibly, that the bible does not advocate for slavery and genocide. And the way we do that without resorting to terrible violence (including slav…

There is no reasonable reading of the bible which fits your narrative.

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by ihaveone »

Clearly someone 'wants to do something controversial'.

Pathetic. Carte blanc on anything using the word Bible is a telltale sign. A 'I've read these verses' tracker also banned, having contained none of what they object to. Violent video game descriptions not banned. Do it right or don't do it. It's simple.

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by bjoli »

nish__ wrote: post #37

Time for an f-droid competitor? The UI is outdated anyways.

Outdated maybe, but still quite functional. What is your issue with it?

if people find the UI so bad, wouldnt it be easier to try to push an updated UI than getting all the infrastructure and everything going?

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by StopDisinfo910 »

kazinator wrote: post #54

Generally speaking, only images/videos are NSFW-taggable. The argument can be made than an app which displays religious imagery is not suitable for the workplace, but if it's just a reader with texts, then not. If someone wants to spy over your shoulder to read text on your screen, and it doesn't jibe with their religion, that is their problem. And, if that's where the goalposts lie, then atheistic texts could be off…

There is a world outside the USA where most of what you wrote doesn’t apply.

Here I think the labelling doesn’t really make sense but it never does anyway and pretty much means "this content is part of a corpus American think is objectionable and wouldn’t want to be seen with in public”.

I enjoy the controversy for putting in light the usual imperial blindness however.

Re: Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid

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Post by seivan »

TheTaytay wrote: post #52
timnetworks wrote: post #20

unless I am misunderstanding, this would allow you to hide the app from sharing settings, so that others don't see you are e.g. reading the quran (where otherwise they may have not known) and has nothing to do with whether or not you have a job where you e.g. work.

It also hides these apps from the search by default unless you enable the NSFW filter.

Right, I wonder what else is under NSFW. Are they really forcing users to enable NSFW which includes actual smut, in order to get a bible app? This is malicious.
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