ICEBlock was a crowd-sourced app that allowed masked ICE agents to be located. Immigrants could thus be warned and escape raids.
Pam Bondi won her case, and Apple was forced to remove the app from the App Store on the grounds that it posed a danger to federal law enforcement. Apple could have challenged this court decision. But Tim Cook, the CEO present at Donald Trump’s latest gala, is asking the White House for exceptions to tariffs on iPhones produced in India and China.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, also seeking favors from the White House, has removed a similar app, Red Dot, from Google Play. Google’s reason for doing so was that it threatened ICE agents. Yes, you read that right… This tracking of ICE agents would constitute a call to violence against a « vulnerable group. » On Google’s app platform, these terms refer to populations subject to persecution because of « their race, » « their sexual orientation, » « their caste, » or « their immigration status. »
This is a bizarre reversal of civil rights advocacy. And this removal from Red Dot was done without waiting for a court ruling.
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Leviticus 19, 33-34 : When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord; your God.