[capote]

Oh! I didn't realize it worked that way. So they can tell Apple to take something off their App Store because Apple has presence in their country? Would app stores be immune if their company doesn't have a presence in a country?

[ultramancool]

App stores may not be legally required to take it down as they're outside the jurisdiction... but a threat to block the app store entirely in the country is probably enough to get them to budge.

[capote]

Blocking an entire app store is so consumer-unfriendly--is there a chance of that happening in a reasonable country?

[dingo_bat]

Not happening in India. To be realistic, even such a thing as a Whatsapp "ban" isn't going to happen/work. It will be at most similar to how porn is "banned". My ISP returns DNS not resolved for most porn websites if you use their resolver, but they pushed an update to the router changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8. The final result is most people haven't even realized that porn websites are banned.

[hashhar]

Porn is effectively not banned because even the NIC DNS servers (the one's one whose infrastructure the government runs on) resolve them really fine for me.