☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻“On October 2, about two months after #DEICER’s launch, the US Department of Justice contacted #AppleCorp to demand the removal of all apps that “put #ICE agents at risk for doing their jobs.” The next day, Concepcion received an email from the corporation explaining that DEICER, which now had roughly 30,000 users, had been expelled from the App Store on the grounds that its “purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.”
In essence, Apple had declared that *ICE agents were a protected class on par with members of a racial and ethnic minority*, which meant they couldn’t be targeted with what the #AppStore’s guidelines describe as “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content.” ICEBlock, which #USAttorneyGeneral Pam Bondi had singled out as worthy of criminal investigation, was booted from the App Store at the same time for the same reason.
Apple’s capitulation to the #JusticeDepartment revealed how much the company’s priorities had changed over the past decade.”
<https://wired.com/story/opposing-ice-might-save-the-country-could-also-ruin-your-life/> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/ficUA>
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