[zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC]

The problem is the authoritarianism. You are advocating for totalitarian control as a solution to the possibility that some individuals might misbehave. If there is one thing we should have learned from history by now, it's that that's about the worst solution to a problem ever.

[lm28469]

We're talking about an app store, not the Final solution. And as far as I know in developed countries companies still have to follow the law.

[zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC]

So? I don't understand your point. Authoritarian solutions are good as long as they are not "the Final solution" because ... ? And what does having to follow the law have to do with any of this? Even "the Final solution" was law, and in a developed country at that, so ... yeah, could you explain what your point is there?

[lm28469]

If any rule/law = "authoritarian regime" to you I think we can't stop the discussion now and save us both some time.

> And what does having to follow the law have to do with any of this

Google is free to handle its playstore as it please as long as it follow the law, I doubt google will pull a genocide anytime soon. Setting boundaries/rules doesn't make you an authoritarian regime. If you want to pull the "this reminds me of the darkest hours of our history" card you better find something more important than an app removal from a mobile phone app store if you want to be taken seriously. But I guess it's fashionable these days to compare everything to nazi germany/fascism/_insert_bad_people_, no matter how convoluted the comparison is.

[zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC]

> If any rule/law = "authoritarian regime" to you I think we can't stop the discussion now and save us both some time.

Can you quote where I said anything about a "regime"?

> Google is free to handle its playstore as it please as long as it follow the law,

Which is true, but completely besides the point? I am free to call you a clueless asshole. But if the discussion is about how to have a constructive dialog, me pointing out that I am free to call you a clueless asshole contributes exactly nothing to the conversation and at best shows that I have no clue what the discussion is about.

> I doubt google will pull a genocide anytime soon.

Your point being? Authoritarianism is good when it's not a genocide, because ... ?

> Setting boundaries/rules doesn't make you an authoritarian regime.

Again: Where did you pull that "regime" from? And also, no, "setting boundaries/rules" does not make for authoritarianism, that is correct. Why did you assume that I wasn't aware of that?

> If you want to pull the "this reminds me of the darkest hours of our history" card you better find something more important than an app removal from a mobile phone app store if you want to be taken seriously.

Why? And no, simply pointing out that one thing is worse than the other is not a relevant argument, that's simply straw manning, because noone claimed that one was as bad as the other.

[BlueTemplar]

Nazi Germany was a pretty developed country, and its companies followed the "law" pretty well ? Imagine how useful an app store would have been to identify the "indesirables" and how long / whether the app store owner would have resisted?