Google and Apple Pull Red Dot ICE-Tracking App

Since Aaron launched the app, it has provoked a ferocious backlash from Trump administration officials, who have led an unprecedented expansion of ICE agency. Earlier this year, Bondi said officials were “looking at” Aaron and that he “better watch out.” The attorney general has also said officials were considering prosecuting CNN for reporting about ICEBlock. Legal experts, however, have told WIRED that ICEBlock clearly falls under protected free speech under the First Amendment and that prosecuting the creator would be illegal.

ICEBlock isn’t the only app to be censored by mobile platforms this week. The ICE-tracking app Red Dot was also pulled from Apple’s App Store and Google Play following ICEBlock’s removal by Apple. 404 Media, which was first to report on Red Dot’s removal, spoke to at least one immigration support group in Chicago, a current target of ICE’s deportation efforts, that has used ...