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'K, I'm totally cool with the downvote.

But I'd like to know, was the downvote (or votes) related to:

  - Pointing out that Microsoft has gateway approval authority is old and tired.
  - Using the term politically incorrect is old and tired.
  - Boobs (including porn, fine art, vacation pictures etc.) should be hidden.
  - Fart apps are too low brow.
  - No legitimate user needs surveillance evasion tools.
  - Microsoft has a social or corporate responsibility to prevent the spread of surveillance evasion tools.
  - Only unsavory users need to know how to make bombs, or learn about how people make bombs to understand those people.
  - Microsoft has a social or corporate responsibility to prevent the spread of information on bomb making.
  - Microsoft would never disapprove an app based on anything like the above.
  - Other.
Yes, I am free to avoid the ecosystem as a developer and consumer, and honestly I probably will. But I think discussion of corporate throttling of expression is necessary.


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