Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
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Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#2Really, because of spoof "nudity"?
I mean, YT is full of actual nudity and more. So, when are they going to suspend themselves?
Unlike Apple they can't even feign not being anti-competitive.
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#3At this point, Google is beyond reason and is openly hypocritical. Open source? Yes. Open platforms? No. Even if they are competing against YouTube.
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.
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#4Here are the content policies:
https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy/
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".
Reporting is done here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/cont...
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#5Really, because of spoof "nudity"? I mean, YT is full of actual nudity and more. So, when are they going to suspend themselves? Unlike Apple they can't even feign not being anti-competitive.
Nudity can be allowed, if it's for educational purposes, there's a difference between content containing nudity and sexually gratifying content.
Details are here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
My guess is that some user reported it, and send in that screenshot, which has led to the ban. It's very hard to make decisions on stuff like this just from a single screenshot.
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#6I'm hoping the 120KB/s speed I'm getting while downloading the client is because they're getting swamped by new users.
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#7Not 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.
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#8Thank you Google for giving this story life and thus letting me know about LBRY.
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#9At this point, Google is beyond reason and is openly hypocritical. Open source? Yes. Open platforms? No. Even if they are competing against YouTube. 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.
> Netflix and Youtube has disgusting content
What?
Re: Google stifles YouTube competitor LBRY, banning it for pedantic reasons
#10Utterly 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 https://itsfoss.com/lbry/
What other decentralized services are worth checking out?