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Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”

Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to internal correspondence obtained by Migrant Insider, Apple has removed the DeICER app—which allowed users to log sightings of ICE enforcement activity—by invoking guidelines normally reserved for protecting marginalized communities from hate speech.

Apple justified this by treating federal immigration agents as a protected class equivalent to groups protected from discrimination based on “religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin.”

According to internal correspondence reviewed by Migrant Insider, Apple told developer Rafael Concepcion that the app violated Guideline 1.1.1, which prohibits “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content” directed at “religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.”

But Apple’s justification went further. “Information provided to Apple by law enforcement shows that your app violates Guideline 1.1.1 because its purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group,” the company wrote in its removal notice.

The decision effectively treats federal immigration agents as a protected class — a novel interpretation of Apple’s hate-speech policy that shields one of the most powerful arms of government from public scrutiny.

Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from “discrimination.” This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.

Of course, this is not entirely unprecedented. As we’ve covered over the years, whenever laws and rules against hate speech exist, inevitably the powerful seek to use them to protect themselves rather than those who are actually marginalized or vulnerable.

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