Comment by baobun
5 months ago
Relatedly, Eyes Up has been removed from AppStore by Apple. Unfortunately 404 Media are softbanned on HN and the ones reporting here.
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
5 months ago
Relatedly, Eyes Up has been removed from AppStore by Apple. Unfortunately 404 Media are softbanned on HN and the ones reporting here.
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Why is 404 media banned?
It's not, I see it on the front page all the time. Lots of times the topics they report on get flagged, though. My favorites has a lot of 404 links. My understanding is if there's an archive link it should be fine.
"Softbanned" here means that it comes dead-on-submission without any users actually flagging it, requiring vouches from multiple other users to get back to baseline.
Those submissions you saw likely either had enough vouchers lurching new with showdead or a mod blessing.
EDIT: See sibling comment. In dangs words, they are banned.
It is banned, apparently because it is paywalled and doesn’t allow people to use paywall bypass links, which isn’t true and so the reasoning doesn’t make any sense, so clearly there is a different reason
I asked ChatGPT and it linked me to a post dang responded to.
It’s related to their paywall.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42308348
That policy deserves re-evaluation. I don't pay for 404 Media. But they're breaking stories on this issue. Banning them de facto bans discussion of not only Apple's App Store monopoly, but also Cupertino's capitulation to this administration.
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Their paywall is no different to any other paywall, so it is clearly not because of the paywall