Free speech’s great leap backwards

In aboriginal December, Joshua Aaron, the developer down the ICEBlock app - designed to fto radical alert others astir the beingness of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - filed a national lawsuit alleging his First Amendment rights were violated. The Department of Justice had urged Apple to region Aaron's app from its App Store, which the suit called unconstitutional. And Apple had complied - successful the process, mounting its ain precedent for suppressing anti-ICE speech.

The twelvemonth 2025 has marked possibly the biggest leap backmost for American escaped code successful generations. The Trump administration's warfare connected immigrants and civilian liberties has le …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.