An Anti-ICE App?

[dewline]

Some of you may be interested in this.

Comments

[armiphlage]

"But because it lives on the web and not in an app store, there is no one for the government to call. There's no app store approval to revoke. There's no middleman standing between the tool and the people who need it. Apple can't pull it. Google can't pull it. Bondi can call whoever she wants."

The *.app domain is owned by Google, so it will get blocked. Better to use the top-level domain of a country outside the US.

[mellowtigger]

Also, there needs to be some way of blocking/throttling, otherwise ICE agents will get the app then spam it with false reports to run people ragged. On Signal, there are bureaucratic layers of humans trying to rate trustworthiness of local reports in realtime.

This is a good effort, though, to simplify the process considerably for occasional participants.

[extraarcha]

IMS: reading down the comments, i think you'll find out the app originates in Denmark.

It seems they have much stricter rules about trying to block things.

[armiphlage]

Regardless of where the app's servers are located, the *.app top-level domain is owned by Google Registry (technically Charleston Road Registry, wholly owned by Alphabet, incorporated under California law). Since the app isn't installed on people's devices, but is accessed by a browser going to https://antifreeze.app/ , that means pressure on Google could keep users from getting to the app. They could get a 404 message, or even be redirected to a fake, malicious version of antifreeze.app.

For a web-based tool, a domain with a non-US-controlled TLD (maybe something like antifreeze.DK) would require more effort for ICE to block.