Apple deleted IceblockKraudsource Platform that monitored observations Immigration and customs law enforcement Agents, the Ministry of Justice said.
“Today we turned to Apple, demanding that they delete the ICBLOCK application from their apps of applications – and Apple did it,” the prosecutor general Pam Bondi In his statement Fox News Digital, which was the first to report the removal of the application.
“Iceblock is intended to expose ice agents who risk simply doing their work, and violence against law enforcement agencies is an unbearable red line that cannot be crossed,” she said.
The representative of Apple did not immediately respond to a request about the comments. But the link to the ice device on the Apple Store offers the message “The application is not available”.
Last month, the director of the FBI Kash Patel said that the attacker, who opened fire at the ice factory in Dallas, was looking for applications for ice tracking.
Joshua Aaron, the creator of the application, did not immediately respond to a request about the comments through the Iceblock website. But in the statement for CNN, he said that “Iceblock is no different from crowdsourcing high -speed traps, which each noticeable mapping application, including Apple Maps application, is implemented as part of its main services. This is protected speech in accordance with the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States. We are determined to fight this with all that we have. Aaron also denied that the application was for the purpose of incitement to violence.
The White House was previously pounced on CNN for even announcing the application, and the Minister of Internal Security Christie Nooy worked with the Ministry of Justice to find out if they could pursue the trial on the network.
At that time, the CNN representative said: “This is an application that is publicly available for any iPhone user who wants to download it. There is nothing illegal in the message about the existence of this or any other application, and is also not the reporting, does not represent promotion or other approval of the CNN application. ”
At the beginning of his second term, the president Donald Trump He signed an order to guarantee that “not a single employee of the federal government, an employee or agent participates or does not facilitate any behavior that would not limit freedom of speech of any American citizen.”
At that time, Trump and others on the right claimed that the Biden administration exerted excessive pressure on the platforms of social networks to remove the content associated with the Covid, which they considered misinformation.
The executive order of Trump says: “Over the past 4 years, the previous administration has been terminated for the right to freedom of speech, subjecting to the censorship of the Americans on the online platforms, often exerting significant forced pressure on the third part, such as the companies of social networks, for moderate, department or other suppression of speech, which the federal government has not approved.”
Apple General Tim Cook sought to get into the good world of the president after Trump introduced tariffs that influenced the production of electronics abroad.
