Joshua Aaron, the developer of ICEBlock, criticized Apple on Thursday after the company removed his app from the App Store at the request of the Department of Justice.
"I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today," Aaron told 404 Media. "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move". He also argued that ICEBlock "is no different from crowdsourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple's own Maps app, implements as part of its core services." He called the app "protected speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution."
