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Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies (www.newsweek.com)
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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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[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's probably just an antimalware bot going wild. An unlucky filter somewhere matching "israel" (i had to regex-process invoices once, same shit), blown out of proportion by 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.