APPLE BENDS OVER FAST, REMOVES ICE TRACKING APP AFTER HEARING FROM PAM BONDI
There’s nothing like the smell of fascism in the morning, is there? But pretty much every day we start out with the various fascistic malodor, and it’s turning into a stench with no winds of democracy blowing in to clear it out. And that brings me to the latest stench, which is all about Apple being the latest to bow down before the emperor with no clothes to offer…. service. Well, if not servitude. But how else can you describe how all it took was for Trump’s AG, Pam Bondi, to reach out to Apple to have them remove their ICE tracking app, and then for Apple to listen post-haste? The bad apple complies with no spine, and today Apple showed no spine. Bad apple. Bad.
ICEBLOCK ALLOWED USERS TO TRACK ICE AGENTS, SO AS NOT TO DISAPPEAR TO TRUMP GULAG
The app which is no more was ICEBlock, which allowed users to track ICE agents and pin their locations for everyone else to follow. Well, avoid, not follow. It was kind of like Google Maps for driving, but instead of posting “Police Here” or “Police in the Area” it was more like “ICE agents here, don’t go here unless you want to be disappeared by brownshirts.” Shoot, with ICE agents dropping from helicopters onto apartment buildings in Chicago in massive photo op raids, regular citizens now might want to use this app, too. But because Pam Bondi “asked,” (bad) Apple listened and it’s no longer available for anyone to use.
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APPLE IS TRYING TO CONVINCE US THAT PAM BONDI TOLD THEM ICE TRACKING APP WAS A SAFETY HAZARD
So what did Pam Bondi actually say to Apple in her (not) presumably gentle exhortations to remove the ICE tracking app? We will never know for sure. But I think it’s safe to say it involved threats. You can safely assume that from how Apple described why they complied, which is utter horseshit to such a degree that bulls are feeling jealous. (bad) Apple said, “We created the App Store to be a safe and trusted place to discover apps. Based on information we’ve received from law enforcement about the safety risks associated with ICEBlock, we have removed it and similar apps from the App Store.”
Safety risk? Now, how would that be a safety risk? The same way that ICE agents wear masks for their own protection? But not to be identified in the annals of history as brownshirts? More accurately, since no one has targeted ICE agents in violent attacks just by knowing where they are, it was safer for Apple to not have to spend any money protecting all the rest of the money it has.
