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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Requiring government ID just to make an app is a disaster for speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Application Gatekeeping: An Ever-Expanding Pathway to Internet Censorship

Apple and Google use their app stores to shape what apps you can and cannot have on devices, but now more governments—including the U.S. government—are using legal and extralegal tools to lean on these gatekeepers in order to assert that same control. Google’s central registration system will be devastating for the Android developer community. EFF has signed on to F-Droid’s open letter. If you care about taking back control of tech, you should too.
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Eclipse Window Film LLC
@eclipsewindowfilmllc@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@eff Hence #BSV DAPPS & #nostr

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Chronologist
@chronologist@ohai.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@eff I have a question for all the highly educated and much more knowledgable people: We can all agree, that using your government ID would be problematic. What about though, if everyone issued a certificate for themselves and the governmen simply signs it, to verify you are actually a real person, but without associating it to your personal information. Would that be possible/feasible/secure? Thank you so much and have a nice day!

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Kevin Ashworth
@kevinashworth@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@eff Are there any current options for a phone device — not a burner or simple phone, but modern, customizable, smart(ish) — that does not use Android or iOS?

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