[HN Gopher] Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking...
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Apple defined ICE as a "protected class" in blocking anti-ICE apps
Author : baobun
Score : 38 points
Date : 2025-10-08 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (boingboing.net)
| baobun wrote:
| Relatedly, Eyes Up has been removed from AppStore by Apple.
| Unfortunately 404 Media are softbanned on HN and the ones
| reporting here.
|
| _Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses_
|
| https://www.404media.co/apple-banned-an-app-that-simply-arch...
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45520110
|
| https://eyesupapp.com/
| uhgseyjnn wrote:
| Why is 404 media banned?
| tyleo wrote:
| I asked ChatGPT and it linked me to a post dang responded to.
|
| It's related to their paywall.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42308348
| JohnMakin wrote:
| It's not, I see it on the front page all the time. Lots of
| times the topics they report on get flagged, though. My
| favorites has a lot of 404 links. My understanding is if
| there's an archive link it should be fine.
| baobun wrote:
| "Softbanned" here means that it comes dead-on-submission
| without any users actually flagging it, requiring vouches
| from multiple other users to get back to baseline.
|
| Those submissions you saw likely either had enough vouchers
| lurching new with showdead or a mod blessing.
|
| EDIT: See sibling comment. In dangs words, they are banned.
| xg15 wrote:
| Corporations are people and militarized police is a discriminated
| minority.
|
| Welcome to the right-wing funhouse mirror version of civil
| rights...
| khelavastr wrote:
| It's REALLY weird the Apple's app store supports generic
| "targeted groups". Looks like Apple literally is chasing the
| lowest common denominator of risk management by not upsetting
| groups.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Source: https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-
| ice-ag... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521066)
| cozzyd wrote:
| Maybe we should start calling it iceOS
| like_any_other wrote:
| For anyone remotely surprised:
|
| _Apple Told Some Apple TV+ Show Developers Not To Anger China_ -
| https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/apple-ch...
|
| _Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed
| Russians to get around censorship_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41712728
|
| _Apple CEO Tim Cook "secretly" signed an agreement worth more
| than $275 billion with Chinese officials, promising that Apple
| would help to develop China's economy and technological
| capabilities_ - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/07/apple-ceo-
| tim-cook-secr...
|
| Apple telemetry on every app opened -
| https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
|
| _Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor
| in China_ -
| https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u...
|
| _Apple is notoriously strict with App Store rules, but gives
| China's WeChat a free pass_ - https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-
| app-store-wechat-china
|
| _Apple drops Hong Kong police-tracking app used by protesters_ -
| https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49995688
|
| _Last week, the Chinese government ordered Apple to remove
| several widely used messaging apps--WhatsApp, Threads, Signal,
| and Telegram--from its app store. [..] In a statement, Apple said
| that it was told to remove the apps because of "national security
| concerns," adding that it is "obligated to follow the laws in the
| countries where we operate, even when we disagree."_ [but they
| don 't disagree so much that they'd stop locking their devices
| against their users] -
| https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/apple_appstore_china_cen...
|
| Apple happily locks you out of your own devices, then cries "just
| complying with local governments" when those locks are used
| against their users. They're the person holding you down while
| others kick you. Every bit as guilty - especially when they see
| their users kicked again and again, yet continue holding them
| down.
| goatlover wrote:
| Why don't citizens have the right to track federal agencies?
| Don't they serve us? Apple is capitulating to autocratic rule.
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