Thu, Mar 4th 2021 1:46pm
Mike Masnick
Arizona appears to be moving forward with an interesting (though, potentially unconstitutional) bill to say that Apple and Google would need to allow alternative payment systems in their app stores. I think this bill
means well in that it s targeting what appears to be a real issue: the control that Apple (especially) and Google (to a lesser, but still significant extent) have over getting apps onto iOS and Android devices. Both companies take a pretty large cut out of in app-purchases basically 30% (it s a little more complicated than that).
The argument from both companies is that (1) it s their system and their providing value by creating the very platform that effectively allows all these apps to exist in the first place, and (2) part of the value of having a single app store model is that it allows for more security and privacy protections for end users (that s a big part of Apple s argument, certainly). Google
steve: what about the your daughter was shut down because she is your daughter? i think that fundamentally she was shut down for reasons that no one knows that s increasingly the issue you can shut down on major tech platforms for violating their terms of service. very worrisome issue. can you also be denied use of payment platforms like master card, visa or paypal for exactly the same reasons. steve: you talk about the anything you click when you sign up for those things. they are a private company. they can do anything they want. ultimately a lot of people look to them because it s free speech. yet it looks to some that they shut down opposing points of view. they can do whatever they want legally. they can t do whatever they want in the real world. you can t be a platform that purports to allow people to
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