Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Eugen Rochko

Google has suspended Element (@matrix) from the Play Store for "Sexual Content and Profanity". Basically same story as with Subway Tooter a while back. Element is to Matrix as Chrome is to the web. Curiously, Chrome is still on the Play Store.

32 comments | Expand all CWs
x51

@gargron @matrix These exclusive app stores need to all burn down.

Graylik

@Gargron @matrix anyone building software that challenges the silicon valley in club should not bother with the Google and Apple app store's, just make your programs work well as mobile sites.

sadneighbor

@Gargron @matrix I guess Amazon/Google/Apple are trying to set example by banning decentralized services just like how publishing companies tried to set example by punishing #aaronswartz.

Papa Dragon, en grève

@Gargron @matrix

Surely you won't find that kind of obscene content in Google Meet, Google Hangouts or Google Duo...

Buntbart

@Gargron
The answer is F-Droid. So teach, help, donate!
#fdroid
@matrix

j@mastodon

@Gargron @matrix

I guess it's time to take FDroid more seriously.
This is war on free speech, and privacy (true E2EE). Donate to FDroid

privvcy

@Gargron @matrix Apparently, it can still be downloaded freely for the desktop from element.io, and for Android from F-droid, but the Matrix environment is for paid users? More learning needed.

G 🇮🇹

@Gargron Tumblr is on the Play Store and it's full of porn, to the face of their dumb censor AI and Big G

Eugen Rochko

@ranx To be fair Tumblr literally banned porn in response to being threatened off the Play Store

G 🇮🇹

@Gargron well... i'm not complaining but they're doing it wrong and what is the Play Store doing about it? 🤷‍♂️

MrClon

@Gargron should Google add content moderation to Chrome?

@matrix

Huy Ngo

@Gargron @matrix I deleted Google chrome because of sexual content and profanity from it 😤

Geotechland

@Gargron @matrix The fact that they removed it makes me mad 🤬

Thankfully we have F droid.

Andreas Plassmann

@Gargron @matrix
Es läuft gerade #überall große #Aufräumen #Aktion. Hat das noch keiner Mitbekommen? #Alphabet wird jetzt von mehren Stellen Weltpolitisch dazu dann noch getrieben in der heutigen Zeit. Bei #YouTube auch ganz besonders. Zu sehen und zur Unterstützung wird die Künstliche Intelligenz vorangetrieben, das das sperren noch schneller geht. Wer das immer noch nicht gesehen hat und sich immer noch darüber wundert, der hat es bis dato so und so nicht verstanden. Traurig aber wahr 🙄

Léo
@Gargron @matrix Who uses the playstore anyway?^^
Sparky 🇩🇪 🇨🇭

@Gargron @matrix Time to remove all email clients from the stores for "sexual content" aka viagra spam mails

Kellyn Delgado

@Gargron @matrix That is so freaking dumb. I hope #Google reverses this because they are threatening the very open #web that they claim to be the vanguard of.

clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
Blog post: It has now been resolved and Element is back.

element.io/blog/element-on-goo…
> At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended Element [ . . . ]‌ We submitted an appeal asking for clarification at 23:18, and at 05:31 received a generic update [ . . . ]‌
> As of 11:44 UTC we’ve submitted a detailed appeal [ . . . ]‌
> At 2020-01-30 23:17 UTC we received a call from a VP at Google [ . . . ] some extremely abusive content which was accessible on the default matrix.org homeserver. Our Trust and Safety team had already identified and acted on this content [ . . . ]‌ we've explained how Element and Matrix works, established a channel for communication over any future moderation concerns [ . . . ]‌
> The app is restored as of 2020-01-31 00:30 UTC. [ . . . ]
Blog post: It has now been resolved and Element is back.

element.io/blog/element-on-goo…
> At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended Element [ . . . ]‌ We submitted an appeal asking for clarification at 23:18, and at 05:31 received a generic update [ . . . ]‌
mk

@Gargron @matrix

is there a list of apps that got banned from the google playstore? there might be some juice apps to discover xD

muesli

@Gargron

I really wonder at which point they actually kick Firefox. It's bound to happen at some point in the near future.

@matrix

[DATA EXPUNGED]
InfoSecLibSoc

@Gargron @matrix Google is a capitalist nightmare. Hate them

Dimi

@Gargron @matrix

"Don't be evil" is a thing of the past.

Go Up