{"id":413469,"date":"2025-12-09T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/iceblock-app-maker-sues-trump-administration-for-free-speech-violations-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:07:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:37:51","slug":"iceblock-app-maker-sues-trump-administration-for-free-speech-violations-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/iceblock-app-maker-sues-trump-administration-for-free-speech-violations-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ICEBlock app maker sues Trump administration for free speech violations &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-0\">\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/article\/portland-chicago-memphis-federal-crackdowns-trump-7a45dcf0e7e2bd7debb38603e5b4f660\">U.S. immigration agents<\/a> sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi used her \u201cstate power\u201d to force Apple to remove the app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-1\">\n<p>Apple in October removed ICEBlock and other apps from its app store after Bondi said they put Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk by enabling people to track ICE activity in their neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-2\">\n<p>The lawsuit from ICEBlock app maker Joshua Aaron argued that the government&#8217;s actions violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-3\">\n<p>The lawsuit also asks a federal judge to protect the Texas-based software developer from prosecution, alleging \u201cunlawful threats made by Attorney General Bondi, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons, and White House Border Czar Tom Homan to criminally investigate and prosecute Aaron for his role in developing ICEBlock.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-4\">\n<p>The Department of Justice didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-5\">\n<p>ICEBlock was the most widely used of the ICE-tracking apps in Apple\u2019s app store until Bondi said in October that her office reached out to Apple \u201cdemanding that they remove ICEBlock\u201d and claiming that it \u201cis designed to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-6\">\n<p>Apple soon complied, sending an email to Aaron that said it would block further downloads of the app because new information \u201cprovided to Apple by law enforcement\u201d showed the app broke the app store rules.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-7\">\n<p>According to the email, which Aaron shared with The Associated Press in October, Apple said the app violated the company\u2019s policies \u201cbecause its purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-8\">\n<p><strong>This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents sued the Trump administration for free speech violations on Monday, alleging that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi used her \u201cstate power\u201d to force Apple to remove the app. Apple in October removed ICEBlock and other apps from its app store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[188,183,185,186,43463,43464,43462,43461,187,184,189,150,182,190,27851],"class_list":["post-413469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-free-speech-violations","tag-iceblock-app","tag-immigration-agents","tag-iphone-app","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-nft-technology","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413470,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413469\/revisions\/413470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}