This is now the american way. Corporations decide what you can and cant do. Both Google and Apple are at it. Sounds a lot like the PRC telling its corporations what and how to censor. What is the difference now between chinese and american censorship? Is there any?

Surprising virtually no one. Tim Cook's legacy won't be sales numbers or new products (e.g. Vision Pro), it'll be bowing to an unlawful king and dictator in the name of protecting profit, and putting that over people.

Not that I envy Cook's position. He's gay, which makes him a target of the current administration. Also, their business is based on importing goods from countries the administration wants to punish. And his job is increasing profit. He's doing a good job of that despite the odds being stacked against him. Still, right is right and wrong is wrong. Tim Cook will not be remembered fondly, except perhaps by the administration. And the shareholders — but I repeat myself. The working class isn't investing in Apple or anything but their own grocery bills.

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure a website that could be accessed by users of any phone platform should still work, until it get seized by the administration... so maybe it could be, I dunno... federated? Is that a word?

This’ll be just like when they banned flappy bird and then we never saw another flappy bird derivative ever again

I've said it for years (decades?), "FUCK APPLE".

I hate a closed-source ecosystem. Fuck them all.

'Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.'

Benito Mussolini

The app was never really fit for purpose; not that Apple should have pulled it…:

“Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater”

Report ice agents in Apple Maps. Flood their staffed resources.

Stop buying their products. Unsubscribe from services.

Fuck the apps anyway, there's a website that already does this just fine.

ICE Activity Tracker - Community Safety Alert System https://share.google/pEDuCDdZFEhAmxvLN

Edit - I'm sorry for the link, I was occupied. My intentions were good but the commenters below were gooder.

I get the outrage, I really do, but the app broke many privacy rights and also the app did technically break ToS by definition being a “doxxing” app.

Regardless, there are websites out there that do it far better than the app, and have universal access Apple and Android devices.

One cannot rely on any large tech organization to empower the oppressed. Yet we must use them in some form.

We can only help empower the acceleration of new tech that allows people to organize and talk without filters. This must include ways to facilitate local geographic communication.

There are many failures ahead, and much frustration. But I think it can be done

Report ice agents in Apple Maps. Flood their staffed resources.

Stop buying their products. Unsubscribe from services.

I consider this as an act of mass violence itself given the consequences.

Make it a website. Make it mobile friendly. Make it hosted off US soil.

Fuck pedophile trumps fascist America.

You are barred from using Gestapo-tracking apps on your naziPhone.

Das ist verboten.

Perhaps now the developer will create an Android version that avoids Googleplayservices?