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Re:Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBloc... by mindslight on Saturday October 04, 2025 @01:58PM (#45475248)
No, I am most definitely not ignoring or downplaying that.

> What you're talking about is _not_ something the 1st amendment was designed to prevent.

Yes, in fact I explicitly acknowledged it as a "shortcoming of its implementation".

What I'm taking issue with is your whitewashing corporate censorship as "exercising the first amendment" in your first comment.

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Re:Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple's ICEBloc... by myko on Friday October 10, 2025 @08:03PM (#45545173)
> What I'm taking issue with is your whitewashing corporate censorship as "exercising the first amendment" in your first comment.

It read more as equivocating completely different things, one of which is much more serious. The fact is "corporate censorship" is not a 1st amendment issue.

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