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Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/court-to-bondi-demanding-platforms-censor-speech-and-bragging-about-it-on-fox-news-is-in-fact-a-first-amendment-violation/

Electronic Disturbance Theater #EDT está promocionando una aplicación web #iceblock que personas de todo internet han aportado voluntariamente. Si conoces a alguna comunidad afectada por la eliminación de software protegido por la Primera Enmienda de sus tiendas de aplicaciones por parte de #Apple y #Google, esta es una de las muchas soluciones, ¡así que compártela! #ice

https://vecinos.is/

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-decides-ice-agents-are-a-protected-class-because-apparently-government-accountability-is-now-hate-speech/

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-decides-ice-agents-are-a-protected-class-because-apparently-government-accountability-is-now-hate-speech/

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-decides-ice-agents-are-a-protected-class-because-apparently-government-accountability-is-now-hate-speech/

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-decides-ice-agents-are-a-protected-class-because-apparently-government-accountability-is-now-hate-speech/

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-decides-ice-agents-are-a-protected-class-because-apparently-government-accountability-is-now-hate-speech/

#Apple #Banned an App That Simply #Archived Videos of #ICE #Abuses

Apple removed an app for preserving #TikToks , #Instagram reels, news reports, and #videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called #EyesUp , differs from other banned apps such as #ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities.
#immigration #archive

https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-archived-videos-of-ice-abuses/

Seems not everyone at the top is in agreement.

Ex veteran Apple marketing exec challenges Tim Cook on ICEBlock

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/former-veteran-apple-marketing-exec-challenges-tim-cook-over-iceblock/

#Apple #Marketing #Exec #TimCook #CEO #ICEBlock #ICE #CPB #ACAB #Tech

Seems not everyone at the top is in agreement.

Ex veteran Apple marketing exec challenges Tim Cook on ICEBlock

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/former-veteran-apple-marketing-exec-challenges-tim-cook-over-iceblock/

#Apple #Marketing #Exec #TimCook #CEO #ICEBlock #ICE #CPB #ACAB #Tech

Seems not everyone at the top is in agreement.

Ex veteran Apple marketing exec challenges Tim Cook on ICEBlock

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/former-veteran-apple-marketing-exec-challenges-tim-cook-over-iceblock/

#Apple #Marketing #Exec #TimCook #CEO #ICEBlock #ICE #CPB #ACAB #Tech

Seems not everyone at the top is in agreement.

Ex veteran Apple marketing exec challenges Tim Cook on ICEBlock

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/former-veteran-apple-marketing-exec-challenges-tim-cook-over-iceblock/

#Apple #Marketing #Exec #TimCook #CEO #ICEBlock #ICE #CPB #ACAB #Tech

Seems not everyone at the top is in agreement.

Ex veteran Apple marketing exec challenges Tim Cook on ICEBlock

https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/former-veteran-apple-marketing-exec-challenges-tim-cook-over-iceblock/

#Apple #Marketing #Exec #TimCook #CEO #ICEBlock #ICE #CPB #ACAB #Tech

Apple removed the viral ICE Block app after government pressure, igniting debate over free speech, user safety, and corporate power. The app aimed to protect immigrants by sharing ICE agent locations, but its takedown highlights how tech and politics now collide in the fight over privacy and justice.
#Apple #ICEBlock #DigitalActivism #PrivacyVsSecurity #TechPolitics #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/apple-pulls-ice-block-tracking-app-from-app-store/

Apple Pulls ICEBlock from the App Store

https://www.theverge.com/news/791170/iceblock-app-store-removed-by-apple

#HackerNews #Apple #ICEBlock #AppStore #Removed #News

Apple entfernt ICEBlock-App aus dem App Store
Apple hat die umstrittene ICEBlock-App aus dem App Store entfernt. Die App war durch Berichte über angeblich bedenkliche Inhalte und politische Einflussnahme in den Fokus geraten.

ICEBlock-App verschwindet nach
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/apple-entfernt-iceblock-app-aus-dem-app-store/
#News #Tellerrand #Aktivismus #Antifa #AppReview #AppStore #Apple #Datenschutz #Entfernung #ICEBlock #iOS #Meinungsfreiheit #TrumpAdministration

不法移民狩りICEの動きを追跡するアプリは違法？
https://www.matatabi.com/2025/07/3464/, #ICEBlock #immigration #IPhoneApp #matatabinews
不法移民取り締まりを行うICE(移民・関税執行局)の動きを匿名で投稿、共有できるアプリ「ICEBlock」のダウンロードが激増している。4月に公開された後、24万人以上のユーザーがいて、iPhone向けアプリで人気3位だ。半径8キロ内のICEの動きを共有できる。トランプ政権は、このアプリの開発者とアプリを紹介したCNNを起訴すると脅かしている。法律専門家は、このアプリに関して違法性はなく、開発者を起訴することは表現や報道の自由を保障する憲法違反だという見解だ。一方、国土安全保障省は、「アプリは、人々が法の執行や運用から逃れることを積極的助けるもので、違法である」との立場をとっている。
Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional (Wired)

ICEBlock: iPhone-App zum Melden von Abschiebeagenten erzürnt US-Regierung - DER SPIEGEL
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/iceblock-iphone-app-zum-melden-von-abschiebeagenten-erzuernt-us-regierung-a-bf323ae2-c6ee-42b9-bd46-2d47b5888594 #iPhoneApp #ICEBlock #ICE

Please 🚀. I'm going to stop short of saying you should not install the #ICEBlock app, but you should know that you're painting a giant target on your back if you use it, and it does not protect your information adequately. The Trump administration is not being coy about how they see this app and it's users, citing charges of obstruction of justice and general threats of prosecution.

The developer ignorantly insists the only way to safely use it is through iOS app store. That ignores the fact that Apple collects data on what users are installing what apps. It also ignores that the gov has been intercepting push notifications for several years now, so it would be as simple as comparing that data against those who receive push notifications at specific times to determine who is using the app.

The app is also closed-source, so the community cannot inspect it for vulnerabilities.

If they distributed through a 3rd party app store on Android, such as #fdroid (which you cannot do on iOS), they could allow users to run their own notification system using #unifiedpush. Google would not be involved at any stage.

Yes, this would be a high barrier to entry for use, but I think the usecase demands it. Almost certainly we will soon see prosecution for the apps' users and probably also removal from the App Store. Apple most certainly does not care enough to fight the government over this.

That is, unless, as I suspect, this app is actually a #honeypot.

Further reading:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

https://www.iceblock.app/android

https://www.newsweek.com/kirsti-noem-iceblock-deportation-immigration-app-2092878

#privacy #security #foss #fossdroid #ice #infosec #boostsappreciated