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		millstone on Oct 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store What prevents a website from offering the same service? Honest question.

another-one-off on Oct 3, 2019 | [–]

Guessing: Got to have a system that is resistant to single points of failure and where the costs of knocking out a communication node is high relative to the benefits the government gets. A website is quite centralised.

swiley on Oct 3, 2019 | [–]

At least on the iPhone websites can’t do peer to peer or notifications.

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