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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App:
‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials.
“I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.

Truly, everyone's a "rogue capitalist" now.
It's almost like the problem with companies isn't whether their business model is based on showing you ads or charging you money,
but rather, whether they can abuse you for profit and get away with it.
-- Coty Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi: https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free,…

People should forget all their ideas about #Apple not being evil like Google, Microsoft and Meta...
"Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today.."

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” the developer said.

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/