Here's a thread about Apple's shameful banning of another map app that helped keep users safe from tear gas and police beatings. No American tech company has covered itself in glory standing up for Hong Kong. https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1183751308802699264 …
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If you work at Google and want to stop this blatant caving to political pressure from China, please make some noise to people on the Google Play team. Hold their feet to the fire on this one.
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This is the message the app dev got (via Telegram): 內容為: 「問題:違反敏感事件政策 我們禁止任何對天災、暴行、衝突、死亡或其他不幸事件缺乏合理敏感度的應用程式,也禁止任何應用程式利用這類事件牟利」//
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Rough machine translation: "Violation of the Sensitive Events Policy: We prohibit any app that doesn't have a reasonable sensitivity to natural disasters, atrocities, conflicts, deaths or other unfortunate events, and we prohibit apps from taking advantage of such events"
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This for an app that is being used by citizens in Hong Kong to look up pro-democracy shops to support with their business. Does Google consider peaceful mass protest to be a conflict, or an unfortunate event?
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A link to the LIHKG forum thread on this topic for those who can read it:https://lihkg.com/thread/1821296/page/1 …
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Google do not care about human rights as told by its former employee. Why is it located in US when the value of the country stands for freedom, human rights and democracy? https://twitter.com/quicktake/status/1216502644749099010?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1216502644749099010 …
1:50Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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It’s pathetic and it’s a shame. ChiNazi is doing this to the whole world if we still don’t stop this our freedom will be taken away. Please stop the advance of chiNazi by participating in
#ABC_challenge,#AnywherebutChinaThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes, after exposure of
#DragonflyProject by google development staff.
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