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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by Spivak on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:07AM (#25970146)
I think it’s funny that they think Google cares at all about the implementation details of your service. The only thing that matters to app reviewers is what the user sees when they use it. If you make your app technically unmoderatable, impossible to remove illegal content, or impossible to respond to DMCA requests you don’t get to just throw your hands up.
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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by MaxBarraclough on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:22AM (#25970308)
> The only thing that matters to app reviewers is what the user sees when they use it.

If that were true, web browsers would be in trouble.

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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by Sunspark on Saturday January 30, 2021 @06:42PM (#25974210)
I understand Google Chrome can be used to view objectionable illegal content.
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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by Spivak on Sunday January 31, 2021 @02:39PM (#25981808)
It’s not that the app can be used to view the content. It’s that Matrix apps are basically matrix.org clients with an option to use another home server if you want. If you followed the default onboarding you get a Matrix.org account. It’s the default blessed server from the project. So Element will now forever get blowback from public content hosted on Matrix.org.
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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by Spivak on Sunday January 31, 2021 @02:44PM (#25981866)
Element is a Matrix.org client that lets users choose another server if they want. And Matrix.org hosts public chatrooms. So the fate of Element is tied to content hosted by Matrix.org.
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Re:Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play ... by tjalfi on Sunday January 31, 2021 @12:40PM (#25980673)
Older protocols such as HTTP are grandfathered in; if the web was invented last week, browsers probably would be blocked periodically.
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