Maybe but governments are slow to react. There will be a couple of months of relative freedom. Then we’ll have to find new apps again.

The floodgates between Chinese and Western meme cultures are now open. It will be glorious.

Gender is a pointer

If making good software was their goal they wouldn’t be in the situation where software engineers are replaceable with AI.

They are removing them for the same reason they introduced them in the first place. Don’t think they honestly believe either way, they just bend with the wind in politics.