Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps...
by LiberatedLlama on Friday February 05, 2021 @04:37PM
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> Leaving Pakistan means shutting down their Pakistani App Store, so the app still won't be available.
If Apple chose not to exercise totalitarian control over iOS users by making their App Store essential to installing software on iOS devices, then Apple would not have to collaborate with the totalitarian Pakistani government. Pakistani religious and ethnic minorities could distribute software through whatever covert channels they've already established to resist their oppressive government.
Leaving Pakistan means shutting down their Pakistani App Store, so the app still won't be available.
(Someone could, say, put the app on the US store and Pakistanis might be able to figure out a way to get it from there... but they can do that either way.)
> ...The alternatives are to have a different store for each country
OK, I guess you don't know this yet, but that's the way it is and has been the whole time. Different laws, different stores. We already aren't stuck with the intersection of what's allowed in 180 different jurisdictions.