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What time it is? It's 5 o'clock... somewhere. So here comes the fifth #FDroid legal post.
It's all about content, transparency, and user protections. It features strong tags like #OnlineSafetyAct #Ofcom #DSA and #DMA and how these shape our own policies.
Will this break some prejudice? One way to find out: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/21/navigating-the-digital-markets-act-digital-services-act-and-the-online-safety-act.html
The vast majority of the world, including where many F-Droid contributors and users live, have strict pornography and gambling laws, as well as regulations restricting mature content. Even if we don’t want to be, we are accountable to certain regulations that meet at the intersection between censorship and safety.
Not to be unkind, but isn’t that their problem? What do you do when your Saudi Arabian contributors are threatened by their government for publishing an LGBTQ-support app? Why would you change your behaviour to support the whims of this or that government just because they decide to pass an intrusive and expression-limiting law? If you’re in the Netherlands, you respect Netherlands law. If you’re trying to please everyone, you’re just going to wind up pleasing no one.
@ret @fdroidorg We have never even tried to please everyone because it is clearly impossible. Thinking about the user helps deal with the world as it is. Let's take your example to show how difficult and gray this is: clearly the LGBTQ users in Saudi want privacy. If Saudi bans F-Droid and arrests users because of that app, did we best serve your example user? If F-Droid has a neutral reputation, provides strong privacy and decentralized access to apps, would your example user be better served?
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