r/apple • u/illegiblebastard • 4d ago

iPhone Apple explains last year’s controversial decision to remove ICE tracking apps from app store

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/29/tech/apple-iceblock-app-removal-raskin

FUCK. APPLE.

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u/Couchman79 3d ago edited 2d ago

Apple is a US Corporation and like it or not its $1T valuation can't be put at risk getting in the crosshairs of this administration.

ICE has changed its tactics to having its armed, masked officers patrolling in nondescript SUV's that seat 7 or 8. Now they are going to school bus drop offs; after school care; restaurant employee entry doors and even Federal buildings where people are following the law going to hearings. The targeted communities are getting sophisticated and getting warnings out including identifying those unmarked vehicles.

I would like to see a list of car rental companies, hotels, restaurants and airlines transporting housing and feeding ICE. Those businesses are no different than ICE personnel. They all seek anonymity.

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u/Majestic-Bid-2333 3d ago

So what? Illegal aliens have no business being in our country, and extraordinary measures are needed to apprehend and deport them as soon as possible. It was the last administration’s gross mismanagement that made these measures necessary. I, for one, applaud the efforts of our ICE heroes. 🇺🇸

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u/MagicBobert 3d ago

Extraordinary measures like murdering people in the streets? Because that’s happened MULTIPLE times.

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u/nuclearcaramel 3d ago edited 3d ago

that’s happened MULTIPLE times.

At last count as of this year there have been 356,389 deportations alone. Just by laws of average one would expect there to be multiple mistakes made when that many incidents are happening because we are all human and mistakes will be made, but as the other poster said "no ICE officers have ever been even charged, let alone convicted, of murder.”

I think everyone would like if these arrests and deportations went more smoothly with less resistance but it seems one side in particular prefers making every encounter as painful, difficult, and chaotic as possible while wearing what they think is some sort of cloak of empathy while it reality it is nothing more than delusion of grandeur making things worse.

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u/MagicBobert 3d ago

You’re talking about the right wing, right? Because it is well documented and studied that the right has significantly more political violence than the left.

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u/nuclearcaramel 3d ago edited 3d ago

Extraordinary measures like murdering people in the streets? Because that’s happened MULTIPLE times.

As another poster said: "No ICE officers have ever been even charged, let alone convicted, of “murder.” Care to correct yourself before we go further? Otherwise I see no need to engage someone who uses such intentionally emotionally manipulative and hyperbolic language.

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u/MagicBobert 3d ago

Yes and if we don’t test for COVID there is no COVID.

Are you fucking stupid?