Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
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Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
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#2Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#3Methinks this won’t be the last politically-motivated removal from Apple’s App Store; the more apps they remove then the more they weaken their own arguments about how a locked-in walled garden is in consumer interests.
Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#4another day, another example of why we must all vigorously reject the campaign to stop users from installing software on their computers. stallman was right!
Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#5Methinks this won’t be the last politically-motivated removal from Apple’s App Store; the more apps they remove then the more they weaken their own arguments about how a locked-in walled garden is in consumer interests.
Oh absolutely. Bondi demanded (!) they remove the app. Why would anyone think she won't demand they remove others?
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#6Not surprising. The media hyped up the app and the admin hyper focused on it. Was bound to happen eventually since Apple wants to play nice with the government. Nice thing is it isn't the only one and others are multiplatform instead of iOS only. I'm doubtful we'll be seeing ICEblock show up in the iOS side load community.
Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#7another day, another example of why we must all vigorously reject the campaign to stop users from installing software on their computers. stallman was right!
Not to refute your point, but a trivial enough thing to create as a web site. I'm guessing that will come next (if one doesn't already exist).
Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#8FWIW, everyone who claims that Apple fundamentally needs the centralized ability to control apps on their platforms "for everyone's safety" -- despite how that obviously and repeatedly makes them become patsies for governments all over the world to enforce their censorship regimes -- are complicit in this stuff (in addition, of course, to the people who build it at Apple...).
Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#9FWIW, everyone who claims that Apple fundamentally needs the centralized ability to control apps on their platforms "for everyone's safety" -- despite how that obviously and repeatedly makes them become patsies for governments all over the world to enforce their censorship regimes -- are complicit in this stuff (in addition, of course, to the people who build it at Apple...).
What exactly do you mean by “complicit” in “this stuff”? What are you accusing?
Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ
#10Methinks this won’t be the last politically-motivated removal from Apple’s App Store; the more apps they remove then the more they weaken their own arguments about how a locked-in walled garden is in consumer interests.
And it is certainly also not the first.