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rgovostes ◴[] No.25606126[source]
Well-written argument for the app reviewers to get bent, especially the highlighted examples of other apps that show the rule is clearly applied inconsistently.

Apple's App Store moderation is embarrassing. They routinely fail to catch harmful junk—I've shut down a few top-grossing bogus antivirus apps for Mac, and the publisher of Untitled Goose Game routinely posts screenshots of clones that are trying to make money off confused users.

They've banned apps like Phone Story and a drone strike tracker for being "objectionable and crude," yet they don't apply any content moderation to the Book Store or to Music or TV (or to Safari for that matter). They've yet to provide a cogent justification for why they're inconsistent on this.

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philwelch ◴[] No.25606582[source]
Banning books is widely considered to be a bad thing.
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1. 013a ◴[] No.25607393[source]
And it is thus important to recognize that our cultural perception of book banning, book burning, etc as a bad thing isn't something intrinsic to humans, and its not something we got for free. It took years of effort from major authors and members of the literary community to shift that perception. And we need to fight that fight again for applications, and especially for platforms which give their users and developers no other recourse, on behalf of the vast majority of users who don't have the knowledge or context to understand why it matters.