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This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 91 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Coffee didn't hit my brain before reading the headline; I thought this was an app to report ICE sightings lol

(Maybe someone on F-droid could get on that?)

[–] seaplant@slrpnk.net 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We've got a hotline in Colorado! (844) 864-8341 They verify reports and share info with the community, and dispatch volunteer legal observers and immigration attorneys. Not sure if orgs in any other states have stood up something similar.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does anyone know if Arizona has a hotline for this?

[–] seaplant@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It looks like Puente Arizona and the Phoenix Legal Action Network have one, but it might just be in the Phoenix area. 480-506-7437, more info here.

[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you🙏

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

Thats what I thought too. The reality is still fucked up, but I don't feel one iota of bad for people getting scammed for using an app to snitch to ICE.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

(Maybe someone on F-droid could get on that?)

Seconded! I read and thought the same things, something like that would be huge right now. Hell of a time crunch and hostile work environment, but it could save a lot of lives.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Or make a fake app for the Play Store where all the reports go to /dev/null.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Take real reports and replace it with randomly generated people to flood the ICE systems with false reports.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I would actually be ok with ai generated photos being used for this

[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Lmao this is the type of creativity the world needs. Shame about the circumstances requiring it, however