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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:12AM (#24305803)
The fascinating part of this is that Google has officially claimed the mantle of arbiter of what is allowed on the internet ( they are not exactly a gate keeper yet, but given how people have trouble accessing information outside FB, Apple, Google gardens, they are well on their way ).

edit: Trouble in a sense that it is inconvenient for them.

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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by rootsudo on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:29AM (#24306017)
You are absolutely right, and this is scary.

Absolute fear.

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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by VLM on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:17PM (#24308238)
As the editor of the internet, are they not taking on full legal liability for anything they haven't blocked yet?
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by heavyset_go on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:06PM (#24308763)
No, and there are laws and tomes of case law that reinforce that no matter how much curation they do, an interactive computer service will not be held liable for user generated content.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by chrisco255 on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:15PM (#24310806)
Yeah but that can be changed with a simple act of Congress and it should be. Their support is rapidly eroding the more they flex their power.
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Re:Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps ... by Nasrudith on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:02AM (#24313366)
That would be an especially stupid move even for Congress. Expect to see either bland corporate content or goatse everywhere then.
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