[rquirk]

The only thing that seems odd here is that Google appear to be proactively defending other companies' trademarks. Shouldn't the Khan Academy or Vice have been the ones to send the takedown notices? Or perhaps they did behind the scenes and this manifested itself in the app bans.

[mjhoy]

Isn't it in Google's interest not to have a store filled with spammy stuff that confuses users?

[Cthulhu_]

Well no; as far as those companies are concerned, Google is hosting those apps and is responsible for them. Google then by extension goes after the author of the app. Similar to Youtube; content owners just went after the hoster (youtube), not the uploader.