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by sysOpOpPERAND 1653 days ago
if he wants to stop censorship he will have to create his own phone next considering iphone and androids are the app gate keepers. you really cant have an app on those phones without a rating system
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There is no end to this kind of escalation short of forking the entire digital economy.

You have your own phone, now what? ISPs and card providers will be pressured to deny their services, banks to close accounts, antivirus companies to yank licences, antispam companies to blacklist domains, open source projects to create new licensing schemes that ban certain viewpoints. There are multiple points of failure along the way.

It'd be cheaper to pay off politicians to get rid of the ability for the gatekeepers to gatekeep.

And fuck it if this is what it takes to get rid of the gatekeepers I'm all for it.