Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies
Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies
NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.
Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies::NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.
release it on fdroid
Welcome to NoThanks, here you can see if the product in your hand supports killing children in Palestine or not. All you have to do is scan the barcode or write the serial number in the search bar.
It's not that bad even if you take the position of Israel is doing nothing wrong at all. No way this app should have been removed because of this.
"Here you can see if the product in your hand supports killing children" is a strong line, but of course it will be banned - not due to Google being particularly pro-Israel or pro-massacre, but because this won't go well with advertisers, regulators and literally anyone in power.
Big Tech just can't afford to allow such bold moves, and it's not political (aside from Big Tech itself being cancer that needs to be eradicated, but that's topic for another day)
Is there an iOS version?
It seems likely to me that there are campaigns of people mass reporting content and apps to get then taken down even if it’s just temporarily. Sure, in some cases, like TikTok, they are meeting with rich Zionists who are lobbying for censor anything anti-Zionist. That takes time to negotiate in some cases I would imagine.
Most people and most Zionists are not rich I think. It’d be faster to run a coordinated mass report campaign through some influencer to trigger the automated moderation.
So even if Google weren’t financially involved in Israel’s occupation, which it is, people could use the mechanisms of its automations to censor things on their own for everyone.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A mobile application telling users which companies to boycott based on their stance in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war has been removed from the Google Play app store.
"The app has been suspended from play store for this sentence, I removed it in the new update and play store will review it and release it again," the account said in a post that included a screenshot of the description line which said, "Welcome to NoThanks, here you can see if the product in your hand supports killing children in Palestine or not.
The ongoing war has prompted an array of responses from people in the U.S. and throughout the world with some supporting Israel's efforts.
According to the Associated Press, over 13,000 casualties have been reported by officials in Gaza, while Israel's death toll has surpassed the 1,000 mark, as of Friday.
In another post, the app shared a video showing a person using the software to scan a barcode while inside a store in order to see if the company is actively supporting Israel.
Following the removal from the Google Play app store this week, the @NoThanksBoycott announced it was sharing an "apk version," on its Telegram channel.
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So many bad articles bout Google lately. Still not being evil.
Is the app open source
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Well done Google.
Just because a war is going on in someone's country doesn't mean you need to punish or target every company in that country. The war is not their fault. It has nothing to do with them.
They should ban the app altogether for discrimination.
