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Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

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Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

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Post by array_key_first »

gottorf wrote: post #43
james_marks wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure who you’re expecting to convert. Most people- thinking of people like my parents- think any app that hinders police must be a bad thing. The idea that something like ICEBlock is benevolent and doesn’t make the user a criminal by association just doesn’t register.

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?

Depends on the law and how it's enforced. You could argue the current status-quo is law breaking by law enforcement, so circumventing them is enforcing the law.

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Post by gottorf »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a society with rule of law, it is generally understood that adhering to laws, even ones you don't personally like, is a good thing; and that it would be a bad thing to pick and choose which laws to follow and enforce.

I suppose you're making the argument that current US immigration law is unjust and immoral to begin with and therefore should be actively circumvented?

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Post by VladVladikoff »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5
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.

Oh absolutely. Bondi demanded (!) they remove the app. Why would anyone think she won't demand they remove others?

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Re: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

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Post by 1659447091 »

gottorf wrote: post #43
james_marks wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m not sure who you’re expecting to convert. Most people- thinking of people like my parents- think any app that hinders police must be a bad thing. The idea that something like ICEBlock is benevolent and doesn’t make the user a criminal by association just doesn’t register.

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?

Only if subjectively cherry picking. VPN apps "help circumvent the law", I wouldn't call them a bad thing

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Post by Der_Einzige »

clarkmoody wrote: post #42
renewiltord wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.
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