ICEBlock’s developpers have denied the Trump administration’s accusations that the app put ICE agents at risk, pledging to ‘resist’ the removal.
The technology giant Apple has confirmed the removal of ICEBlock, a crowdsourcing app that collects sightings of US immigration officers, and similar software from its App Store, following pressure from the administration of United States President Donald Trump.
As of Friday, ICEBlock was no longer available on the App Store, where users can download software.
“We just received a message from Apple’s App Review that #ICEBlock has been removed from the App Store due to ‘objectionable content’,” the app’s social media team said in a post on the platform BlueSky. “The only thing we can imagine is this is due to pressure from the Trump Admin. We have responded and we’ll fight this!”
The move marks a rare instance of an app being taken down due to demands from the US governmen
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