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What business does the govt have with private app stores.


Yes! If there are issues with Apple and Google they could create laws to fix it.

If the idea was to help citizens, laws or regulations to stop said practices would be better, not that I agree with it.

But thats not the idea, they see Google's power and they want in.

Can you imagine thinking a government having all your data is better than a corporation?

People have forgotten the governments were the perpetrators of the worst thing in human history.

No corporation has rounded up people to be shot like governments did.


Corporations did just that in the specific part of the world under discussion here. I suggest you look into the East India Trading Company, Dutch East India and French East India companies.


I didn't say corporations are all good, but the fact that you had to go back to the 17th century to find an example tells a lot.

Governments have been killing people since their beginning and probably as we speak.



Sure, i wouldn’t disagree I do think that’s happening now.

governments do that and much worse.

Right now there are people in concentration camps.

I get that corporations can be bad, but they don’t have the monopoly on violence.

To conflate corporation’s violence with governments is a stretch.

It’s funny that people point at corporations being bad, while at the same time defending the worse offender.

I think people can be bad, and having a power form corporations make it worse, but the power government gives to terrible people is much worse.

* edited would with wouldn’t


I didn't need to go back to the 17th century but it seemed an appropriate example given the part of the world under discussion.


IT cell must have learned how to inject apps with RATs.

an app store would allow them to inject RAT into every app thus giving them the ability to spy on every indian device




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