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.
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Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies
Submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.newsweek.com/google-removes-app-boycott-pro-israel-companies-1848904
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apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
iopq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
Saxoboneless@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Jesus christ, Israel is literally a British colony. Getting Jews out of Europe was literally 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’
People are being displaced and forced out of their homes by settlers and military right now. Fuck colonizers.
sugartits@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Many who chant it don’t even know what river or sea they are talking about without looking it up.
And they don’t care what happens to the Jews. It’s a racist chant which is basically supporting genocide.
It’s an idiotic phrase that only morons and racists would repeat. It’s unrealistic and doesn’t solve a damn thing. But of course the herd will repeat the catchy phrase because they have an excuse to be openly racist but still have a way of justifying it.
There. I said it.
And no, before these same idiots say otherwise: I am not happy with how Israel or the IDF is handling the current situation or the situation before October. Nor am I a supporter of hamas and their actions in early October; Israel just had their own 9/11, so of course they are going to react miltaryary, of course they fucking are, like every country on the planet would.
This whole thing is like watching two unlikeable assholes having a boxing match. It’s basically boogie2899 Vs wingsofredemption but with a lot more death and destruction, so it’s not funny.
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It means that Palestinians living in West Bank and Gaza should be free from Israeli oppression and Palestinians living in Israel should be free from apartheid. It doesn’t mean kicking people out.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It’s a thought terminating clishe. It’s easy to avoid complex issues if you can just repeat a quick little chant to get out of critical thinking.
PatFussy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They chant that because nobody who says that cares about what the outcome is. The Palestinians have been chanting this slogan for many years since the PLO times. The call was to unite the people to show unity between the people of gaza to west bank. However, when Hamas took power, the chant turned into something antisemitic. So you will hear both sides now, unite the people and wishes for terror.
SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Israel can’t and shouldn’t exist in the future.
An ethnic religious state can never be free.
Sauvandu59@lemmy.my.id 11 months ago
Free Palestine from the river to the sea. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Debunking : “From the river to the sea” is a call to genocide.
LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Debunking that Blog is really easy.
Literally 75% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza choose it as the explicit genocide option on a survey that Includes one state for two people as an option. This is a poll done by a Palestinian university in the west bank, claiming its Israeli propaganda would be pretty stupid. All the US congress did was assert to the public what the meaning is to a super majority of Palestinians in Palestine. The diaspora pushing a different narrative never speaks up when the crowds chant the Arabic version that ends in “Palestine will be Arab” (or “Palestine is Arab”).
KittyCat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck off with that, its just as genocidal as the zionests.
LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
For all the people still in denial, that is a genocide slogan.
All you need to do is listen to actual Palestinians in Palestine instead of anonymous blogs.
Like a survey conducted by Palestine’s Birzeit University’s Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD)
Literally 75% of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza choose it as the explicit genocide option on a survey that Includes one state for two people as an option. This is a poll done by a Palestinian university in the west bank after the start of the war, claiming its Israeli propaganda would be pretty stupid. All the US congress did was assert to the public what the meaning is to a super majority of Palestinians in Palestine. The diaspora pushing a different narrative never speaks up when the crowds chant the Arabic version that ends in “Palestine will be Arab” (or “Palestine is Arab”).
snek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
britishteadrinker@feddit.uk 11 months ago
No calls for genocide please.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I agree, Israel should stop actually committing genocide.
satan@r.nf 11 months ago
release it on fdroid
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What it is called ?
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s in the description of this post. I’m not going to share it because I want you to learn basic problem solving.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
idiocracy@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
totally not circlejerkimg brainwashed herd
Orbituary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bro, I’m no bot. Mine is a legit down vote.
Fitik@fedia.io 11 months ago
I wish those were bots, but they're real people sadly, Google "tankies".
YeetPics@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Beep boop, you’re a dipshit
HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 11 months ago
There’s a simply diagram of a few targeted products to boycott here. bdsmovement.net
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Slightly off tangent but last year appeared this particular ID Nahui Scanner 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.
febra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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
teichflamme@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ukraine didn’t fire rockets at Russia and kidnap Russians for decades.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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?
01011@monero.town 11 months ago
PostMarketOS is an alternative to Android that has nothing to do with Apple.
fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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
pokemaster787@ani.social 11 months ago
Agreed, they both suck but I’ll at least stick with the one that begrudgingly lets me install what I want vs. the one that tells me what I’m allowed to install completely.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 11 months ago
why ditch Android entirely?
Neither mobile company is good
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love fdroid. I would sell it to the average user on the fact that the apps are adfree.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Id love to try an alternative for at least the store. It’s absolutely impossible to find and app worthwhile on there. Like, it’s insane. It’s all just bullshit that is, paying to be seen, or gaming their system (just like Google.com is becoming like, actually.)
floppade@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Thanks this thread was sincerely useful
Zummy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m an iPhone user and I really enjoy my iPhone, but understand that Apple is perfect either. If you like side-loading apps you can forget about that on the iPhone. Additionally, there’s plenty of censorship when it comes to China because Apple won’t lose its precious revenue it gets in that Asian market. Personally, I don’t like Google because I don’t believe the make any real attempts to protect your privacy, but understand that Apple isn’t perfect either.
mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is a fair point. Apple definitely has better privacy protection than Android. To me, this was the second most important difference (the first would be Android is more open source even though the version that gets to your phone isn’t really that open).
serratur@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
EU has forced apple to allow sideloading
giggling_engine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well they can start by not using their smartphone because that thing has a ton of Israeli tech.
boyi@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
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.
BrownKong@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
giggling_engine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think boycotting is the wrong way to solve this issue. It’s better to sit down and have an honest conversation about it. But the conversation has been anything but honest. People don’t even know what “from the river to the sea” actually means before shouting it, they think it’s some hippy “love and freedom” chant, while it’s a call for genocide.
drmoose@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It wasn’t. That’s the acceptable cover we’re being fed. It’s always money.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Dumb question perhaps, but why don’t they just make it a web app or a mobile website instead?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Because Google won’t ban those and give them free publicity.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When I just searched NoThanks on Google Play, the top results were YouTube Music, Google Meet, Google Assistant, Netflix and Amazon. What the actual fuck
db2@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Accurate though, if not what you meant.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish I could argue with that
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“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)
IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I love how all the pro-business and free speech advocates of the past thirty years have not yet realised that these concepts are mutually exclusive.
Eximius@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mutual exclusion means either one is true or the other, but not both. But also what he said has no two specific concepts? What do you mean?
Banning because of advertiser / regulator / government populism vs. It not being political?
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Is there an iOS version?
badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So many bad articles bout Google lately. Still not being evil.
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Man this is sad to see, people falling for the Hamas propaganda or willing ignoring the truth because their antisemitic, or it’s what it’s always been, immature people doing whatever makes the old people in office angry
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People don’t support Hamas.
People want to stop civilian massacre.
avater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]samsepi0l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Name a pro Hamas company.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
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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floppade@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
s38b35M5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
danielfgom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Jesus Christ, this is insane. When did it become unacceptable to say that genocide is bad?
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
When the US supports it, it’s not genocide. It’s just becomes “self-defense”.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s great to have God On Your Side®
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A technique stretching all the way back to the Roman days
Is anyone really surprised we’re still up Brutus’ ass when the library of congress only just recently acknowledged that the US system is based much more on the Haudenosaunee Confederation than the Roman Republic, no matter how much the marble fap gang tries to insist otherwise
aeronmelon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
When it interferes with the bottom line.
DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Capitalism taking its natural course of prioritizing capital/profit over human lives.
Join/organize protests and Socialist movements if you want change.
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck off with your genocide agenda!
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
It’s probably just an antimalware bot going wild. An unlucky filter somewhere and 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.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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!
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Not condoning the bullshit, just pointing out that the app is back up on the store as of 5hrs ago
idiocracy@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
since its fake news, propoganda, brain washing and antisemic
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If they wanted genocide, why aren’t they killing the millions of Palestinians that are still alive outside of the war zone?