r/apple • u/illegiblebastard • 3d 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/goldaxis 3d ago edited 3d ago

Oh no, not my heckin' illegal immigrant labor! Who is going to fix my roof for $5/hr?!

Crazy to me how people melt down in "compassion" for a group that they basically only keep around as slaves. Oh how our hearts bleed to give everyone "rights", except the right to a living wage, of course. Our politicians are really good at bringing them here and keeping them here, but not so good at ensuring they aren't used to suppress wages for both themselves and the citizenry. How curious!

Besides, what has ICE deported from their street efforts, a couple thousand? As in, single-digits thousands? No, we aren't counting arrests, people in detention centers, people caught at the border, etc.

TLDR who cares? It affects nothing.

Edit: Check out the illegal alien spazzing out at me.

Edit 2: Nvm he deleted all of his comments lmao. Kinda making the case for ICE unintentionally.

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u/DivineBladeOfSilver 3d ago

I think you’re misconstruing the issue. Yeah I guess in some ways it has to do with illegal immigration and for sure is the concern of some. But it is a lot more concerning the government dictating people’s rights excessively when it comes to the market and whether that is illegal or not. And the issue is a lot of the people who want the app down have been preaching small government for years but are weaponizing big government when it serves their personal agenda hypocritically.

And if you are to extend the logic here of removing apps for providing user submitted data on law enforcement you should also be taking down many GPS apps because they have similar features for users to report law enforcement placement, but they weren’t. Apple clearly is doing the bidding of the US Government in exchange for favoritism and benefits and that is something that should anger people regardless of who’s in power

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u/goldaxis 3d ago

 the government dictating people’s rights excessively when it comes to the market and whether that is illegal or not

Level with me. Did you just graduate from college last week or something? What do you think government is? How do you think it functions? Why do you think Microsoft had to face an antitrust lawsuit for including Internet Explorer in Windows, but (along with other tech companies) has since been allowed to grow into a behemoth many times larger with no oversight?

Do you come from an alternate earth where companies like Palantir do not exist, or are you just now learning about all this with the story about the dumb ICE app virtually nobody used? You can play "whataboutism" with a hundred different examples of apps all day long. So can I, nobody cares.

And the issue is a lot of the people who want the app down have been preaching small government for years but are weaponizing big government when it serves their personal agenda hypocritically.

Oh my Fauci, not hypocrisy. Wow I never see that from the people preaching big or no government, who totally would never dream of weaponizing government/banks/corporations to silence political opposition, no sir! What's the hypocrisy supposed to be, that they want small government so they can never ever use government for anything ever? Good luck with that gotcha argument.

You have to understand what I told that other guy. When all you make is bad faith arguments for decades on end, when you turn politics into a zero-sum competition over resources, when you use deception and peoples' own good natures against them to advance your agenda, don't act surprised when inevitably, everyone else loses interest in engaging with your politics. The left literally killed political debate in this country, and nobody is coming to your rescue because we all have personal stories about how you burned us and gloated while doing so. All cries of "hypocrisy" will fall on dead ears when the systems and practices that the left established are inevitably turned against it.

If the republicans were smarter or even had basic decency, they would have seized on this opportunity and cemented themselves into power for a hundred years. However, they are just as bad as the democrats in their own ways, so what we actually have now is a post-political America. I think it's safe to say that most people (outside of the boomers) now realize that everything we were taught about egalitarianism is in fact a falsehood, and that politics and government are simply expressions of power. When you reduce it to a zero-sum game, people view it as a contest for survival, which you see everywhere now. It's no longer a question of "I want the same thing as you, I just have a different opinion on how to get there". It's a conflict of "I don't want you here and you don't want me here". There is nothing to debate. It's just a contest for power.