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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 ajross »

akshitgaur2005 wrote: post #112
ajross wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"The bible is not a matter of interpretation" is literally, literally how you end up in religious wars. Seriously?

"I want to kill people and eat their firstborns", what interpretations can you come up for me?

First, I'm an atheist. I'm on your side.

But as a practical matter, I'll point out that trying to ban the interpretation held by the three billion or whatever practicing christians on the planet is a better way to end up as a sacrifice on that altar than to improve the world.

Look, this whole idea is dumb. No, F-Droid shouldn't be in the business of denying religion to make a bunch of intemperate nerds like us happy. Are we really having this fight?

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

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Post by nathanaldensr »

ignoramous wrote: post #33
giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps and ignored things like reddit when doing this I would say its just an honest mistake, but they only seemingly marked Bible related apps. In one instance the developers app isn't even an app that contains the Bible, its a Bible reading tracker so you can keep track of which verses you have read thus far, still marked NSFW. There was not enough thoug…

> still marked NSFW "NSFW" is just the name of the F-Droid Anti-Feature , which is quite broad than what "not safe for work" implies: ... nudity, profanity, slurs, violence, intense sexuality, political incorrectness, or other potentially disturbing subject matter ...

It should read "...as defined by the small clique of politically-identical F-Droid contributors with authority."

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

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Post by nathanaldensr »

dvno42 wrote: post #103

This seems reasonable. The content includes themes (death, rape, violence, etc) that are generally considered NSFW by most modern day rating agencies. Just because cultures have historically seeded the texts for a long period of time doesn't make them SFW. If ESRB/MPAA had to rate a modern reboot, I don't think it would get a T/PG-13. Personally, I wouldn't want my kids exposed to this kind of material without at lea…

It's only reasonable if reason is applied, rather than one particular set of contributors' political sensibilities. Unfortunately, there is zero logical consistency in what is marked NSFW and what isn't. That's the entire problem. F-Droid's authoritarian moral-policing crew are coming up with any flimsy justification for censorship applied inconsistently rather than taking an objective look at the issue. Read the comments and you'll see their tone is clearly dismissive and condescending, not collaborative and "Hmm, I can see how maybe this line of policing is inconsistent." This is how this kind of political-bias-pretending-to-be-objectivity tends to unfold with religious adherents, which these F-Droid contributors seem to be.

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

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Post by nathanaldensr »

colonial wrote: post #120

Insufferable r/atheism-tier behavior. I'm glad I don't rely on F-Droid for anything critical.

Exactly, but if you say that you'll just be accused of yourself being a biased bigot, conveniently distracting from the original reason the discussion started at all! These psychological tactics don't work on people anymore.

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

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Post by cakeday »

snthpy wrote: post #85

Seems legit. These topics should not form any part of work or government. What you do in your own time is of course completely up to you, as with any other NSFW content.

The US Constitution's First Amendment protects religion from government. There is no amendment protecting porn or gratuitous violence. Marking the religious apps as NSFW may be a violation of the First Amendment and could potentially be challenged in court, to a potentially huge sum of money and F-Droid's potential detriment.

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

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Post by nathanaldensr »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #86
drewbitt wrote: post #78

NSFW meaning "content that you may not want to view in public", is the Bible or Quran really that?

Have you read it? Yes they are

Yes, I have read it, as have billions of others, and we don't agree with you. Your personal political sensibilities are not shared by all. For what it's worth I wouldn't flag any of your chosen religious texts either no matter what they were.

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

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Post by nathanaldensr »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #95

What is the funniest is that this is the action of a social justice warrior on a crusade, exhibiting the exact same behaviour he purports to be against.

And after exhibiting said behavior, when you doth protest, they will call you the bigot (eventually).

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

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Post by cakeday »

inglor wrote: post #4

Discussion of the merge request to mark it as nsfw https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252 Edit - found more context: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794 I still don't get it to be honest.

"authoritarian regimes"

It seems someone at F-Droid may have a political axe to grind with the current US presidency and the majority of the population of America who elected (1.)them.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

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