Jesus Christ, this is I getting nsane. When did it become unacceptable to say that genocide is bad?
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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When it interferes with the bottom line.
When the US supports it, it's not genocide anymore. It's just becomes "self-defense".
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The article says that the app description said something about "killing children".
It's not really surprising google removed it. I mean they could've just edited the description or whatever but... policy I guess.
Sounds like it will be back any minute.
Google probably doesn't have a stance here. They just sanitize everything for you to consume without a second thought. I wonder if it violated some children-related policies.
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Because despite treating Israeli Holocaust Survivors like dirt, Israel has successfully sold itself as being justified because of the Holocaust, so outside observers who've never heard of soap being a slur in hebrew because jews who didn't experience that contempt the ones that did flinch when you point out how the early settlerists established bank infrastructure with the Nazis to facilitate well of jews moving to Israel under pressure, or how current settlement communities literally have Lebensraum ideation of taking everything between the Nile and Euphrates.
These psychopaths are so hell bent that the Arabs don't even get their own ancestral homeland anymore if the zionists get their way, Aden is just a piece of Israel that lost the memo!
It's probably just an antimalware bot going wild. An unlucky filter somewhere matching "israel" (i had to regex-process invoices once, same shit), blown out of proportion by the culture of outrage doing it's thing.
But now that Google is forced to admit to one side, they will probably prefer to say nothing and just take the blame. It will be forgotten in a month anyway.
Capitalism taking its natural course of prioritizing capital/profit over human lives.
Join/organize protests and Socialist movements if you want change.
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Not condoning the bullshit, just pointing out that the app is back up on the store as of 5hrs ago
edit: furthermore, if actual boycotting is your legit interest instead of impotent, anonymous outrage, here's a similar app that offers the same functionality.
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release it on fdroid
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Slightly off tangent but last year appeared this particular ID Nahui Scanner app that scans barcodes and highlights any Russian-made products (released in March 2022 but unfortunately no updates since then). So it basically operates similarly to the aforementioned No Thanks app.
Well, it's okay to boycott Russia for invading and occupying parts of Ukraine but god forbid you boycott Israel for invading and occupying the entirety of what we know as post 1967 Palestine.
Russia hasn't pre-empted its invasion with decades of screed about how they're owed that land because of the Holocaust and how disagreeing is russophobia
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Streisand Effect
Free Palestine from the river to the sea.
What I don't understand, as someone who doesn't support Hamas or Netanyahu, is why you would chant that.
Like, where would Jews go? Is that actually a real solution? Only super old people actually came to Israel from another country, most of the Israelis don't know any other home
Well for one, Jews and specifically Israelis don't have to go anywhere for Palestine and Palestinians to be free?
Like the slogan just does not at all necessarily imply what you're imagining (or what the US congress claims) it does. That slogan's been around longer than Hamas.
The slogan is being used by far right israelis too. And it is implicitly genocidal for both sides. Israel is here to stay and so is Palestine. Both sides need to accept this so we can move towards the next goal, defining which lands go to which side.
Israel needs to be charitable and give back land, remove settlers, etc. And in response Palestine needs to control its people and guarantee the safety of Israel.
A lot of Israel's landgrab is because of security concerns or at least thats Israel's excuse. If Palestine can remove that excuse by providing security, things can become a lot simpler.
The problem is that Palestine does not exist as a country with a unified government, partly because of Israel(supported hamas, etc), so Israel continues having legitimate security concerns.
To be fair, we do say the same thing about "all lives matter." An objectively true statement that can border on hate speech depending on context
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Jesus christ, Israel is literally a British colony. Getting Jews out of Europe was exactly what the Nazis wanted.
Zionism isn't some centuries old thing; it's based in British colonization tactics. It started in full force only around 70 years ago to serve British military interests in the region.
The companies made are literally called "Colonization Commission" and 'the Jewish Colonial Trust'
Israel, EU, and the US should decolonize the region and return it to Palestine. Where they go is up to those governments to manage, because they started this. But that goes against their profit incentives, which is to keep the middle-east divided through war, keep oil cheap, and prevent them from uniting against the imperial core, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of civilians are killed in the process.
People are being displaced and forced out of their homes by settlers and military right now. Fuck colonizers.
The PFLP, the second largest Palestinian liberation group after Fatah, calls for a secular Palestinian state where Jews, Muslims, etc. will live together in peace. Modern Fatah even accepts a two-state solution (and they have every right not to). Only Hamas is mixing up Zionists with Jews, and that's entirely because of Israel and the Imperial core's constant oppression, displacement, and now genocide of the natives.
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The list is immense. I would almost prefer a list of brands okay to buy from, free of zionist support. It would be smaller and easiest to maintain.
There's a simple diagram of a few targeted products to boycott here. https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide
https://bdsmovement.net/sites/default/files/Boycott%20Article%20%281%29.jpg
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I need to get off Android after this. OnePlus 6 is so close to being ready on PostMarketOS (conventional Linux for smartphones) but I don't think I can wait for it anymore.
You can always install F-Droid and side-load .apk on Android. Apple censors anything remotely negative about China, among other concerning positions. Neither mobile company is good, so why ditch Android entirely?
PostMarketOS is an alternative to Android that has nothing to do with Apple.
I don’t think they implied that they would switch to Apple. They just want off android so bad they can’t wait for the new Linux mobile OS
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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.
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Dumb question perhaps, but why don't they just make it a web app or a mobile website instead?
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"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)
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Well they can start by not using their smartphone because that thing has a ton of Israeli tech.
kinda agree with this, to some extend. We can only do selective boycott, those that won't directly affect our life given that there are other options, like not going to Starbucks or McD. If we really want to boycott Israeli products and techs, we won't get access to modern tech at all - they are everywhere.
You don't need to stop using things that you already payed for, that's would be wasteful. You just need to stop support and not buy anymore.
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Is there an iOS version?
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