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Trump violated First Amendment by forcing Facebook, Apple to remove ICE-tracking

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/government-coerced-enforcement-trump-admin-violated-first-amendment-by-forcing-facebook-and-apple-to-remove-ice-tracking-apps-district-court-issues-injunction/
14•vrganj•1h ago

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hexage1814•37m ago
Generally speaking, unless there was a sort of constitutional right of people submitting apps to app stores, I find it somewhat complicated, because the multibillion dollar corporation could always argue, "Oh, we didn't remove it because the government asked us to gain some favor with the current administration, but rather because it violated our user policy." Like, you can very, very, very easily hide behind a private corporation deciding to exercise its power to decide such an app violated their internal user policy.

Hell, even if there were a public register of Trump asking them to remove an app, you could always argue, "Well, anyone, regardless of them being president of the United States or not, is free to ask for an app to be removed; anyone could theoretically demand and protest anything, and Trump, as any citizen, has this right" (not saying I agree with that thesis, to be clear).

But I do believe the whole point highlights a bigger problem: a negative relation between big corporations and the government. I'm not sure how anyone would solve it. Maybe by sidelining the whole issue by making it easier for people to install apps from whatever the fuck they want, without the app stores gatekeeping what software one installs on their device.

But if anything, we are moving far away from that, even on Android

No More Cheap Claude: Four Principles of Token Economics in 2026

https://age-of-product.com/token-economics-2026/
1•swolpers•29s ago•0 comments

What I heard at OpenChain and Friends 2026

https://www.thomas-huehn.com/what-i-heard-at-openchain-friends-2026/
1•Tomte•47s ago•0 comments

Humanoid robots race past humans to set Beijing half-marathon record

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/humanoid-robots-race-beijing-half-marathon-record-5HjdXyH_2/
1•chatmasta•2m ago•0 comments

Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny

https://theins.press/en/inv/291614
1•dralley•3m ago•0 comments

Prokudin-Gorskii

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=prok
1•KyleVlaros•3m ago•0 comments

Prepping for the Endgame of the Open Web

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/prepping-for-the-endgame/
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: React-native-Google-maps-plus – Google Maps for React Native

1•pinpong•5m ago•0 comments

MCP Spine – Middleware proxy for MCP with security, routing, and token control

https://github.com/Donnyb369/mcp-spine
1•Mxwell369•5m ago•0 comments

Acute exposure to caffeine improves foraging in an invasive ant (2024)

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)01157-X?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub....
1•bookofjoe•6m ago•0 comments

Discord Read Receipts Exploit: When, How Often, How Long

https://paul.koeck.dev/writeups/discord-read-receipts
1•pauxel•8m ago•0 comments

LaunchWall .Online

1•tamimbuilds•9m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's once-tight bond with gamers is cracking over AI

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/18/nvidia-ai-backlash-gamers-geforce-gpu.html
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

InnerZero a local AI assistant where your memory never leaves your machine

https://innerzero.com
1•zotex•14m ago•0 comments

Evaluating Memory Models

https://garden.amcampbell.xyz/Spaced-Repetition/Evaluating-Memory-Models
1•gmays•17m ago•0 comments

Russian-made drones 'disintegrating in the air before reaching their targets'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russian-made-shahed-drones-are-disintegrating-in-the-a...
1•pinewurst•21m ago•0 comments

Recommended GPU Repairshop in Europe (Germany)

1•DogRunner•22m ago•0 comments

Don't Be Evil

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/
2•Klaster_1•22m ago•0 comments

Where Are the Customers' Bots?

https://www.thedrawingboard.net/where-are-the-customers-bots/
1•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Another Demo from Boston Dynamics

https://spectrum.ieee.org/boston-dynamics-spot-google-deepmind
1•marc__1•24m ago•0 comments

Germany's Black Forest faces a future of transformation

https://longreads.com/2026/03/12/into-the-darkness/
2•mooreds•24m ago•0 comments

Donut Lab's battery claims reportedly subject of whistleblower complaint

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/donut-labs-battery-claims-reportedly-subject-of-whistlebl...
1•WarmWash•25m ago•1 comments

Lil: A Scripting Language

https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html
2•tosh•25m ago•0 comments

Running Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B-4B on MacBook Pro M5 64GB with tools

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJlVjR3G25c
2•elvean•26m ago•0 comments

A New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/opinion/lafarge-corporate-terrorism-syria-france.html
1•shrubby•27m ago•0 comments

Notes from the SF Peptide Scene

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/notes-from-the-sf-peptide-scene
2•theahura•29m ago•0 comments

Best: "Show HN: Synod–Python tool to use generic BLE wearables as PC macro decks

https://github.com/Abrish-Yir/synod
1•vexki•30m ago•1 comments

The neuroscience of visualization: why it works (but not how you think)

https://twitter.com/jaynitx/status/2045486658938888598
2•gmays•30m ago•0 comments

Generating random numbers using C++ standard library: the problems

https://codingnest.com/generating-random-numbers-using-c-standard-library-the-problems/
1•fanf2•30m ago•0 comments

Who will be the senior engineers of 2035?

https://theengineeringmanager.substack.com/p/who-will-be-the-senior-engineers
1•baranul•32m ago•0 comments

Is BQN Mathematics?

https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/commentary/math.html
2•tosh•32m ago•1 comments