That’s a different kind of “blocking”.
They’re referring to something more like banning. Kicking people off the service.
No, on both of them it says the app itself must have the ability to block users. In other words, the user has the ability to block someone. Since neither app would ever allow a user to have the ability to ban someone completely from the site, the blocking function they are referring to is the blocking function as it exists today.
That seems to be how the apple store is worded. But google requires in app blocking of users and content, which cannot be reasonably interoperated as moderator removals or bans.
Musk’s proposed change would violate the language in the image for google’s store.
Going by the other two in the Google rules they are about blocking people from using the service just like Apple’s list not about letting individuals block other individuals.
How can you possibly read it that way? Unless you think there has to be an in-app method to ban users? There is no in-app system for blocking people from the service either.
Google: Provides an in-app system for blocking UGC and users.
I agree.
I don’t see how an administrator blocking someone serverside could possibly be “in app.”
I don’t think so. They’re saying that has to be in the app so I don’t think it means the ability for the owners to do it. Plus they’d always have the ability in the backend.
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