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[Drama] Developer of wgtunnel asks for app to be removed from F-Droid (gitlab.com)

submitted 3 days ago by blight@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Just found this issue when trying to figure out why the wgtunnel app wasn't on F-Droid. I found it interesting and I thought maybe you guys would too.

Other related threads/issues:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/612
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861
https://gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/work_items/874

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've read tamer media that would still qualify as questionable. I think the real question is whether something is "NSFW" if it's written media rather than visual since it's unlikely a colleague is reading your book.

That being the case, F-Droid has its own definition for NSFW, and no reasonable definition of NSFW that doesn't specifically exclude written media or religious texts would exclude the Bible (or any Abrahamic religious text, really). It's more that those books get a pass for historical reasons than anything else.

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 days ago

As I wrote above, noone where I work would blink for that kind of stuff, but I guess that doepends on the local culture.

I have looked and couldn't find the F-Droid definition of NSFW.

But I've bit bits of the discussion and the whole thing was kinda nuts. By my criterion I'd let the Bible pass, but the way all those people jumped to "So ArE yOu BaNnInG tHe QuRaN aS wElL??!!?" was really embarassing.