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[birksherty]

They can't ban a windows pc software like this as it's not walled garden. When phones come with app store, they must be responsible.

[passivate → birksherty]

They can block the hosting servers, domains, etc. They can also block you from searching the name of the app, etc. There are multiple tools of censorship that are available to governments. Banning the app is the easiest.

[birksherty → passivate]

Here we are talking about blocking by google and apple, not whether url can be blocked.