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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by birksherty on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:50PM (#26043408)
They can't ban a windows pc software like this as it's not walled garden. When phones come with app store, they must be responsible.
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by passivate on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:46PM (#26059307)
They can block the hosting servers, domains, etc. They can also block you from searching the name of the app, etc. There are multiple tools of censorship that are available to governments. Banning the app is the easiest.
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Re:Google, Apple cave to Pakistan pressure to take down apps... by birksherty on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @08:27AM (#26088732)
Here we are talking about blocking by google and apple, not whether url can be blocked.
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