A theoretical contrapositive: would Apple allow an app that allowed people to track anti-ice police? Antifa?
Clearly, they would not, and cannot have an app that tracks a protected class, but what about an app that told people that antifa was nearby?
I see the logic in tracking government officials, but I think it cuts both ways and maybe neither should be allowed.
Of course the same argument could be made for Waze, but I don't know where you draw the line without blowback to others. I think there is a line, I just don't know where it is.
Motives? Perceived danger?
glimshe•1h ago
Without getting in the merits of Apple's block, the problem in your argument is that the government is not equivalent to a group of citizens. It's in a position of power and it carries weapons ordinary citizens can't.
Simulacra•1h ago
Clearly, they would not, and cannot have an app that tracks a protected class, but what about an app that told people that antifa was nearby?
I see the logic in tracking government officials, but I think it cuts both ways and maybe neither should be allowed.
Of course the same argument could be made for Waze, but I don't know where you draw the line without blowback to others. I think there is a line, I just don't know where it is.
Motives? Perceived danger?
glimshe•1h ago