{"id":22359,"date":"2025-10-15T22:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=22359"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:21:59","slug":"another-big-tech-player-melts-over-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=22359","title":{"rendered":"Another Big Tech player melts over ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Division of Justice has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/3\/2346742\/-So-much-for-trying-to-protect-your-neighbors-from-being-kidnapped-by-ICE\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">targeting groups<\/a><span> meant to guard folks in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers\u2019 violent assaults, and now one other tech big has joined in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/facebook-takes-down-page-that-justice-department-says-was-used-harass-ice-agents-2025-10-14\/\" target=\"_blank\">removed a Facebook group<\/a><span> meant to find ICE brokers in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/9\/2347756\/--His-soul-is-deeply-lost-Chicago-mayor-stands-defiantly-against-Trump\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a><span> amid huge <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/13\/2348357\/-Obama-slams-Trump-for-deploying-troops-in-Chicago\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">immigration raids<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi celebrated the coordinated effort, claiming that the Fb group was getting used to \u201cdox and goal\u201d ICE brokers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image-captioned width-xl align-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cartoon by Clay Jones\" class=\"width-xl\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.dailykos.com\/images\/1486383\/large\/CjonesRGB10102025.jpg?1760036225\" title=\"Cartoon by Clay Jones\"\/><figcaption>A cartoon by Clay Jones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe wave of violence in opposition to ICE has been pushed by on-line apps and social media campaigns designed to place ICE officers in danger only for doing their jobs,\u201d Bondi <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGPamBondi\/status\/1978104370186137616\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a><span>. \u201cThe Division of Justice will proceed partaking tech corporations to eradicate platforms the place radicals can incite imminent violence in opposition to federal regulation enforcement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a press release offered to Every day Kos, a Meta spokesperson defended the corporate\u2019s cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis Group was eliminated for violating our insurance policies in opposition to coordinated hurt,\u201d they mentioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When requested to supply particular examples of \u201ccoordinated hurt\u201d within the group, Meta didn&#8217;t reply.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Every day Kos additionally contacted the DOJ however didn&#8217;t obtain a response earlier than publication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the meantime, President Donald Trump\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2024\/12\/13\/2291744\/-America-s-largest-media-and-tech-moguls-line-up-to-kiss-Trump-s-ass\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">close relationship<\/a><span> with tech billionaires has helped ICE maintain its brokers as unidentifiable as doable. Earlier this month, Apple <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/10\/3\/2346742\/-So-much-for-trying-to-protect-your-neighbors-from-being-kidnapped-by-ICE\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">quietly removed apps<\/a><span> from its digital retailer that tracked ICE exercise. And Google has equally <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/9\/30\/2346194\/-Dislike-YouTube-joins-Big-Tech-cowards-in-caving-to-Trump\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">caved to Trump<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In sanctuary cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, Trump has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/10\/9\/2347761\/-Shocker-Court-filing-proves-Trump-s-invasion-of-Illinois-is-bullsh-t\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">sent in swaths<\/a><span> of ICE brokers to hold out raids<\/span><strong>.<\/strong><span> In some circumstances, folks have been pulled from their workplaces, and pregnant ladies <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/8\/7\/2337160\/-Trump-s-ICE-goons-get-even-more-creative-and-heinous-with-kidnappings\" target=\"_blank\">have been manhandled<\/a><span> whereas taken into custody. And out of concern, households are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/9\/16\/2343697\/-ICE-raids-take-toll-on-Latino-mental-health-It-s-been-nonstop\" target=\"_blank\">hiding in their homes<\/a><span>, lacking work to keep away from being kidnapped by ICE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, Los Angeles County <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/15\/world\/americas\/los-angeles-emergency-immigration-raids.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">declared a state of emergency<\/a><span> because of Trump\u2019s immigration raids.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Nonetheless, the digital technique of defending immigrants have gotten too far out of attain as tech corporations eagerly get on board to assist Trump\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2025\/10\/10\/2347802\/-Trump-s-secret-police-get-even-more-secret\" target=\"_blank\">secret police<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2025\/10\/15\/2348744\/-Another-Big-Tech-player-melts-over-ICE?pm_campaign=blog&#038;pm_medium=rss&#038;pm_source=main\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Division of Justice has been targeting groups meant to guard folks in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers\u2019 violent assaults, and now one other tech big has joined in.\u00a0 Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Meta removed a Facebook group meant to find ICE brokers in Chicago amid huge immigration raids.\u00a0 Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,2254,4177,4272,157],"class_list":["post-22359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-big","tag-ice","tag-melts","tag-player","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22360,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359\/revisions\/22360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}