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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by soulofmischief on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:55AM (#20830026)
Don't strawman this argument into a conversation about intelligence.

This is about personal freedom. Not wearing a seatbelt can put others at risk for injury liability. Installing an app will not do that. Let's stay on topic. And while we're at it, you and I both know that majority opinion has never been strongly correlated with truth.

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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by JaRail on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:58PM (#20832520)
> Not wearing a seatbelt can put others at risk for injury liability.

Wow, I'm surprised that has never occurred to me before. I guess that to most people, such as myself, the trade-off is so obvious from a personal safety point of view that we don't think too deeply over it. This is a great point.

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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by liability on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:14PM (#20833173)
Beyond legal liability, there is also the matter of the psychological trauma inflicted on the other driver when you die.
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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by eropple on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:37PM (#20831776)
> Installing an app will not do that.

Ever seen a botnet?

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Re:Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-s... by soulofmischief on Monday September 02, 2019 @03:32PM (#20861305)
There is a difference between installing some sketchy third-party app from an apk provider and installing an app that simply doesn't meet Apple/Google's community guidelines.
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