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Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

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Post by niij »

closewith wrote: post #327
unethical_ban wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is Waze allowed since it let's you report speed traps? Probably because it doesn't technically advertise it as such, just "hey something requiring police presence is around". ICEBlock should rebrand as a generic "police activity" app and have a category "other" that everyone understands is ICE but isn't labelled as such.

> Why is Waze allowed since it let's you report speed traps? Nominally the purpose of speed enforcement is to reduce vehicle speeds, which Waze notifications achieve. Waze - at least in my country - did remove COVID checkpoints during lockdowns, so they don't allow all reports.

What is that?

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Post by angoragoats »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #90
clarkmoody wrote: post #42

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For all the talk of Trump being Hitler, I never saw any real tax protest movement to defund the regime...

Unironically it's because liberals actually like paying taxes. Every state and local school board tax increase passes where I live because it's a bunch of pot smoking hippies who unironically believe in wealth redistribution through progressive taxation.

How is a tax increase to fund schools wealth redistribution?

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Post by james_marks »

jjj123 wrote: post #57
gottorf wrote: post #43

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Surely an app designed to help circumvent the law is a bad thing, even if it doesn't make one legally a criminal merely by association?

Why is that a bad thing? Was the Underground Railroad a bad thing?

In the norms of its time, I am sure many thought it was a bad thing. Slave owners, certainly.

It’s only looking at it through today’s drastically different norms that it’s an obviously good thing.

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Post by latexr »

pacomerh wrote: post #93
amazingamazing wrote: post #67

Why are people so obsessed about apps. could be a website that couldn’t easily be taken down.

Well, native apps are more popular among non tech savvy people because they’re easier to find and install. I was talking to the guy who works on our backyard and they don't even know what a browser is on their phone.

> they don't even know what a browser is on their phone.

Why should they? There’s no app called “web browser” on the phone. But there may be “Safari” or “Google Chrome”. Do they know what those are?

If you told them “go to ”, could they do it?

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Post by latexr »

beeflet wrote: post #83
amazingamazing wrote: post #67

Why are people so obsessed about apps. could be a website that couldn’t easily be taken down.

PWAs are limited in functionality, and websites on the clearnet are easily taken down or blocked.

> websites on the clearnet are easily taken down or blocked.

As are apps, as this submission demonstrates. Websites at least have quick methods of recovery by changing domains or servers.

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Post by pjmlp »

mdhb wrote: post #345
pjmlp wrote: post #344

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Someone has to remember younger folks about IE 6 outcome, while others pretend only Chrome exists and ship Electron crap as well. Firefox barely surviving at 3%, Safari as the last one standing, remains to be seen if Servo or Ladybird ever become relevant. Yes, shitty point for anyone that only cares about Google's agenda to take over the Web.

If there’s a coherent point in here I genuinely can’t find it.

I can't help you there.

This is what matters https://whatwg.org/

Not this

https://developer.chrome.com/blog

https://www.electronjs.org/

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Post by diego_moita »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #3

Methinks 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 won't affect their branding in any relevant way.

As "Amusing Ourselves to Death"[1] would explain, what almost all Apple consumers want is just FaceBook, WhatsApp, memes and games. Anything else is "boooring!".

We live in an Idiocracy[2]. Deal with it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

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