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How Apple's market power blocked ICEBlock

Last month, the Trump administration asked Apple to remove an app from its App Store that crowdsourced sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Today on the show, we explain what an ongoing legal battle involving the developer of the video game Fortnite has to do with Apple’s latest move to comply with the Trump administration. Related episodes: How Fortnite brought Google to its kneesThe DOJ's case against AppleApple v Everybody For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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  Tariffs. Consumer sentiment. Cape Ratio. Pick The Indicator of The Year!

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  Catching up with a fired federal worker, a shrimper and a fraudster

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  The ghosts of Obamacare past, present and future

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  Will new loan limits lower the cost of grad school?

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  Can American cities grow AND stay affordable?

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  How to make $35 trillion ... disappear

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  Bitcoin miners are betting on AI over crypto

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  How a former Fed vice chair would approach rate cuts

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  Take a penny, leave a penny, get rid of the penny

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  Chips up, rent down, and are people really skimping on holiday gifts?

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  A little doomsday feeling is weighing on the economy

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  How Japan’s new prime minister is jolting markets

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  What would it mean to actually refund the tariffs?

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  Why the US chose not to have a passenger train system like Europe

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  Moochers, monopolists and market-based poverty help