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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Wired (who are not on Mastodon!?) is dissembling.
https://www.wired.com/story/x-grok-app-store-nudify-csam-apple-google-content-moderation/
The answer to "why is X still in app stores?" is obvious: the fascists like it.
App stores are centralised rentiers, ergo easy to coerce when proprietors are avaricious bootlickers. Wired's *so close* to connecting the dots, but fail here yet again. From last Oct:
https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/
/cc @pluralistic