Official site: https://www.iceblock.app/

The CNN article talks a bit more about privacy issues. This bit caught my eye:

It’s only available on iOS because Aaron says the app would have to collect information that could ultimately put users at risk to provide the same experience on Android.

I would like to see some details about this. Perhaps there’s a way to work around that problem, even if it meant publishing on F-Droid instead of Google Play.

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    16 hours ago

    I agree with every part of this except for the word “most likely,” since the incidence of ICE arrests are extremely high right now but terrorism is otherwise not.

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        13 hours ago

        Did you not notice I said “otherwise”?

        Regardless, terrorist is a subjective term, and typically one excludes agencies with jurisdiction or organized militia; so the police, ICE, U.S. military, IDF, etc. don’t qualify regardless of your disposition toward them. This is why newspapers are usually quite hesitant to use the word “terrorist.” There’s a good case for calling the CIA (and other foreign-intelligence TLAs) terrorists though, since they operate outside of places where they have the authority to do so. Obviously, it’s semantics at the end of the day.