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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by tailspin2019 on Friday September 17, 2021 @08:40AM (#28564753)
As much as I like a lot of the benefits of the walled garden (from a consumer perspective, not necessarily as a developer), this is actually a very good argument for side-loading and one that I hadn't thought about before.
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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by saurik on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:09AM (#28566353)
~4 years ago I gave a talk at Mozilla Privacy Lab (perfected from a talk I gave at 360|iDev) that focused on these moral reasons for not having centralized systems, looking at everything from government control to the tyranny of the majority, that I called "That's How you Get a Dystopia".

https://youtu.be/vsazo-Gs7ms

As far as I am concerned, you absolutely cannot have centralized control over something like "all software distribution" without being actively complicit with such regimes, and that people working for Apple have chosen to normalize this is unconscionably immoral :(.

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Re:Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian e... by tailspin2019 on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:28AM (#28566601)
> As far as I am concerned, you absolutely cannot have centralized control over something like "all software distribution" without being actively complicit with such regimes

Yeah that seems to distil the problem down to the fundamentals. Will watch your talk, thanks!

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