Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was this ever even available to non-US accounts? Was there ever an explanation for why it was georestricted?
Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.”
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was this ever even available to non-US accounts? Was there ever an explanation for why it was georestricted?
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s an app about ICE, why would it be available to non-US accounts? It was pawbably georestricted by the developer, just like most apps that have a geoblock.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because ICE targets people not from the US?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
Only if they’re in the US illegally.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Also, if they are here legally. Or citizens. Basically, anyone with an accent. Or not. Basically, a yone brown.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Define from the US. Are you saying those travelling in from internationally by air or road, that are getting stopped by CBP and generally detained, where ICE reporting apps would be useless because they aren’t making it to the broader community. Or are you saying those who are living and working in the US and pawbably have a US Apple account?
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People living in the US but using an Apple account set to another country. Because you can only switch it once a year or something inconvenient like that. Whatever the circumstances may be, there is seemingly no good reason to restrict the app to US accounts only.