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Five@slrpnk.net to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 days ago

Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

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Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater

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Five@slrpnk.net to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 4 days ago
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At this summer's HOPE conference, Joshua Aaron spoke about ICEBlock, his iPhone app that allows users to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5 mile radius, and to get notifications when others report ICE sightings near them. You can see the full talk, and the lively/infuriating Q&A, here,
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    Isnt that they same App that got completely obliterated by a single Mastodon post by GrapheneOS?

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      Doesn’t seem like it? https://grapheneos.social/search?q=iceblock&type=statuses

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        It was BlueSky, not Mastodon and is linked in the article: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lt2prfb2vk2r

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