www/proprietary proprietary-censorship.html

[David Allen]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     David Allen <dma>       16/03/03 06:53:58

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-censorship.html 

Log message:
        Added Samsung ad blocker entry (RT #1084803)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-censorship.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7

Patches:
Index: proprietary-censorship.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-censorship.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- proprietary-censorship.html 19 Oct 2015 13:14:03 -0000      1.6
+++ proprietary-censorship.html 3 Mar 2016 06:53:57 -0000       1.7
@@ -47,6 +47,18 @@
 censorship, but that requires identifying oneself to pay, which is a
 form of surveillance.
 </p></li>
+
+<li><p>
+<a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones";>Google
 censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker,</a> saying that blocking ads is 
"interference" with the sites that advertise (and surveil users through 
ads).</p>
+
+<p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google
+Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program
+gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.</p>
+
+<p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not total:
+Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
+free programs from fdroid.org.</p>
+</li>
 </ul>
 
 </div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
@@ -106,7 +118,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/10/19 13:14:03 $
+$Date: 2016/03/03 06:53:57 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>