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Re:First Amendment in Peril? by toast0 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @02:26AM (#15051995)
I'm a strong proponent of free speech, including abhorrent speech, but capricious removal from the platform stores doesn't offend me. On Android, it's not hard to install apks from websites. On iPhone, it's a lot harder, but iPhone is a minority of the market, and Apple has made a point of curating their store to some degree, I simply don't expect them to accept everything and they are inconsistent, too; but even old iPhones have enough economic value to trade for an Android, if the owner decides they don't like the aesthetic choices Apple has made with their app catalog.

This feels significantly different than refusing to register a domain, or even refusing to host objectionable content. As a user, I expect app stores to perform some sort of judgement about apps, and not simply allow any app that is not unlawful.

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