Flagged. Of course. It's technology meets politics and it's anti-alt-right so of course someone has to flag it.
Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
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Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#62I found this article via https://hn.algolia.com/ and immediately knew, that I would see the flagged mark.
Is this because readers don’t want to be reminded how absurd the world outside has become?
Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#63From the article The DOJ told Newsweek: "For several weeks, the Department of Justice inquired into this former employee's activities and discovered she has a sizable interest in All U Chart, Inc., the company that holds the IP for ICEBlock. ICEBlock is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture while endangering the lives of ICE officers by disclosing their location. This DOJ will not tolerate threats against l…
Two comments about this bunch of BS: 1. I would guess that ICE agent isn't even in the top 20 most dangerous occupations in the US. 2. If knowing the location of law enforcement endangers their lives, why do the great majority of law enforcement officers wear distinctive uniforms and drive around in clearly marked vehicles?
The "massive (percentage) increase" in assaults on ICE officers is a good example of How to Lie with Statistics * (1954, still a good book, worth a read).
For comment, see:
We now know that an “830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community.
For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
DHS Still Pretending 15 Assaults A Month Is Evidence Of Widespread Violence Against ICE Officers
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/23/dhs-still-pretending-15-...
Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Nobody can expect to have a side interest in an app that works against their employer Really? So if my wife works for Google and I work for Facebook, she has to get me to quit Facebook? Or if my wife works for Google and I found a start up making a search app, then she has to get me to wind up my start up?
If you work for the government you have to disclose outside activity. This administration sucks, but being a shareholder isn’t the same as your spouse just working on a project. She should have resigned a long time ago.
So anyone with S&P 500 index funds in their retirement account can never work for any company you could consider a competitor to any of the 500?
Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#65ICE Speak: - ICEBlock is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture - while endangering the lives of ICE officers - by disclosing their location. - This DOJ will not tolerate threats against law enforcement or law enforcement officers." Reality speak: - ICEBlock is an app used by citizens who reasonably want to 1) be aware of what their government does 2) provide the only known oversight of ICE agents 3) avoid a…
btw. this > ICEBlock is an app that illegal aliens use to evade capture is highly dehumanizing language you normally find only and autocratic regimes ruled by force and despotism instead of law if you read that in you country and it's not a exception but the now norm you alarm bells should ring in overdrive historically speaking language like this has pretty reliably an indicator of a country going to commit mass mur…
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Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you work for the government you have to disclose outside activity. This administration sucks, but being a shareholder isn’t the same as your spouse just working on a project. She should have resigned a long time ago.
So anyone with S&P 500 index funds in their retirement account can never work for any company you could consider a competitor to any of the 500?
Some employees may have contracts that have ethical clauses for outside activity.
The person in this case worked for the US Government, and is subject to ethics laws and agency policy.
In most cases, a mutual fund isn’t an ethical issue for most roles - although in a more normal time some elected officials would put investments in blind trusts to ensure there wasn’t an appearance of corruption.
Owning a portion of a private company run by your spouse whose principal activity is directly opposed to those to whom you serve at the pleasure of is going to be a problem. If you fail to report it, you’re going to get fired.
Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#67In addition to the obvious problems of the US government illegally firing one family-member solely to punish a different family-member's constitutionally-protected free-speech... I'd also highlight these aren't even the same part of the federal government. ICE is under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whereas she is/was employed as a forensic accountant at the Department of Justice (DOJ). To make an throw-b…
The DOJ's position is that she is threatening the lives of federal agents.
Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#68She owns half of the company is why she was fired!
The DOJ goes further than that. They believe she was threatening the lives of their officers.
Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#69Flagged. Of course. It's technology meets politics and it's anti-alt-right so of course someone has to flag it.
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Re: Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
#70In addition to the obvious problems of the US government illegally firing one family-member solely to punish a different family-member's constitutionally-protected free-speech... I'd also highlight these aren't even the same part of the federal government. ICE is under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), whereas she is/was employed as a forensic accountant at the Department of Justice (DOJ). To make an throw-b…
Not a different person "discovered she has a sizable interest in All U Chart, Inc., the company that holds the IP for ICEBlock" I'm not sure what hen's employee contract reads. There are some limitations on US government employees engaging in political action though (Hatch act). Perhaps hen sent a text relating to All U during work hours?
> There are some limitations on US government employees engaging in political action though (Hatch act).
In both terms, the Trump Administration has been full of top-to-bottom, flagrant violations off the Hatch Act by loyalists.