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Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Cowardice at Apple: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-takes-down-ice-tracking-app-after-pressure-from-ag-bondi

Fox Business

Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from Bondi DOJ

Apple dropped an ICE tracking app from its online store Thursday in response to the Department of Justice raising concerns that the app put law enforcement officers’ safety at risk.
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Søren Frølich
@Sevfel@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@dangillmor The makers of the app should put up a normal website available for all, as well as making an android app, that can be sideloaded by android-users.

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Danie van der Merwe
@danie10@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor I'm glad I ditched Apple for the second (and now last time). That said I see Google's putting more pressure on sideloading with Android so at some point we're going to have to retreat to Google-less Android or Linux phones.

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Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg)
@jgg@qoto.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

This is what happens when you make an app for an ecosystem based on a walled garden.

If it were an open source web app, Apple actions would be irrelevant.

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Spirit
@Spirit@cybernetic.monster replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor meanwhile "Protect USA" is still a available to help target employees for political speech.

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PetraPanda
@PetraPanda@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

#boycott Apple

This is just one in a long history of let's fuck people over because we're at the long end of a very long stick and we're untouchable.

#fuckapple

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Extra_Special_Carbon
@Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor And yet, they are still the least fash of tech companies.

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Graeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
@pa27@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor Just what you would expect. Spineless a*holes, and don't give a f*ck about their customers. Nothing new!

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Jones Murphy
@jonesmurphy@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor it's not cowardice. It's agreement with Trump's bigotry & hatred. Like Scott Bessent, Tim Cook is a gay white man who supports rampant homophobes out of shared white supremacism.

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Wally
@Wally@thepit.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

Interesting that after all this time only now is Google/Alphabet deciding to remove "unverified" side loading from Android.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence of course 🙃

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Bogdan Buduroiu
@bruvduroiu@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor it’s not cowardice, it’s capitalism. Stop expecting corporations to act morally, their duty by design is to the shareholders.

We need this energy to be focused into libre software and hardware instead

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xs4me2
@xs4me2@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

Bending knee is not a way to be free…

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Michael
@implementcontrols@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor a great reminder that the iPhone 17 one just bought doesn’t belong to them, and isn’t for their best interests.

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Orion Ussner kidder
@OrionKidder@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor Cowardice, or just who they are? If they'll work with the PRC, they'll work with a fascist US government. They probably don't even have mixed feelings about it.

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Mark Krijgsman
@Tibbletoad@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor and this toot was right underneath this one.

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Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor Ha. I’m genuinely disappointed at people expecting business giants to NOT fold. History shows they always fold, as they have most to gain from it.

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Alex
@constancies@metalhead.club replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor i'm sure i'm not the only one to say this, but this here is exactly why forcing people to only use one app store is awful.

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞
@sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor

Yup, Apple caves to the fascists. Just like when they killed Airdrop in China a few years back because kids were using it to share protest information.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/apple-airdrop-china-ios/

#apple #Fascism #cowards #ice

VICE

Apple Limits AirDrop in China After It Was Used to Spread Protest Messages

The new restriction came after activists in China used the feature to sidestep censorship.
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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
@toriver@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor Apple is just doing what they usually do in order to do business in a totalitarian country. The main difference is that the totalitarian country is the USA.

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dark was the night 🌚
@djnst@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@dangillmor they don't yet realize the full price they will have to pay to make Donnie happy. Oh well

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