Google company Android application developers , ΠΈ allowing communication in decentralized social networks , about the need to eliminate violations of the rules of the Play Store catalog. 7 days are given to correct the comments, after which applications that do not comply with the requirements will be removed from the Google Play catalog.
The reason for the intended blocking is the possibility of using applications to access user-generated content that incites discrimination and includes elements . Apparently, the notifications were received by applications that do not censor and do not block servers containing groups that tolerate racism, xenophobia, extremism and interethnic hatred. For example, the Husky app is a fork of the , which did not receive a warning from Google. The differences between the Husky and Tusky programs come down to the delivery of a built-in blocking list, which includes networks such as , without limiting user judgment.
On the author of the platform for creating decentralized social networks Mastodon, the applications that received the notification do not promote groups with hate speech and are not responsible for their maintenance, but only allow the user to enter the address of any decentralized social network server of interest. Responsibility for the information posted on the selected network lies with the server administrator, and not with the application developers. Similarly, Google may require the removal of Chrome, Firefox, Opera and other browsers, since they also allow the user to enter the address of a dubious resource and access offensive content.
Source: opennet.ru