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App That Tracks ICE Raids Sues U. S., Saying Officials Pressured Apple to Remove It

The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.

For six months, Apple distributed an app called ICEBlock that allowed users to alert people when they saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But after the Trump administration complained that the app endangered officers, Apple removed it.

On Monday, the app’s developer, Joshua Aaron, sued top Trump administration officials, accusing them of pressuring Apple to stifle his free speech and his right to create, distribute and promote ICEBlock.

The suit, which was filed in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claimed that Attorney General Pam Bondi abused the government’s power when the Justice Department contacted Apple and demanded it remove the app, which she said she had done in a statement to Fox News in October. She said that Apple removed the app after her request.

The legal action could reveal more about Apple’s decision making and compliance with edicts from the Trump administration. According to Apple’s own public reports, it has removed apps at the request of authoritarian governments like China and Russia, but not from the U. S. government.

When I was a kid, they said Bruce Lee is the strongest man in the world.

I've noticed that the left mainstream media always turns off the comments section of their youtube channels when they are trying try to normalize unpopular opinions without being exposed by the public's reaction. Though sometimes they do forget to switch it off to most people's amazement.

Trump has murdered over 70 people in the Caribbean Sea who were traveling in small boats. Trump has slandered his victims as drug smugglers, but there is absolutely no evidence to support this. Trump just said it, and some people here at least have decided that it must be true because Trump said it, even though Trump is a liar.

So, what's it going to be? Do you just depend on the words of a liar and believe them, or do you depend on the fact that there's no evidence and there should be? If in fact there was evidence, Trump would be parading it through the streets of New York to prove that what he did was OK. It wasn't OK.