Bondi previously claimed that Iceblock's service is not a protected speech. “He gives a message to criminals where our federal officers are,” she said in the Sean Hannity show. “And he can't do that. And we look at it, we look at him, and he better watches, because that is not a protected speech. That threatens the life of our law enforcement officers in this country.”
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi has posted in June that Ice Block is “certainly like obstruction of justice … If you hind or attack our law enforcement, we will detect you and you will be prosecuted in the full extent of the law.”
The Bluesky account from Iceblock posted yesterday that Apple quoted “offensive content” in his message about the removal of the app. “The only thing we can imagine is that this is due to the pressure of the Trump manager,” said the social media post. “We have responded and we will fight this!”
Iceblock, who reportedly had more than 1 million downloads, was able to report observations of ice officers and the display of ice observations within a radius of five miles. The Iceblock website says that the app is not on Android, because achieving the same “level of anonymity on Android is not feasible because of the inherent requirements of Pusheldingservices.”
Google removed Red Dot and other ice-spotting apps from the Play Store, 404 media reported.
Although popular, Iceblock has been criticized by some who support his goals. “Because ice observations in the app are in no way verified, it is likely that most reports in the app are not ice cream, even if they are posted by people who mean well,” wrote journalist and security engineer Micah Lee last month. Lee also wrote that Aaron's promise of anonymity is not 'backed up with evidence', and that he 'chose to focus on iOS alone, and not Android, because of a misunderstanding about how Android -Push reports work'.
