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You think this administration is trustworthy?
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You omitted these items immediately above that line:

Injects JavaScript into every website you open through its in-app browser to hide cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, signup walls, upsell prompts, and paywalls.

Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal's servers.

Loads JavaScript from a random person's GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app's WebView.

Loads third-party JavaScript from Elfsight (elfsightcdn.com/platform.js) for social media widgets, with no sandboxing.

Sends email addresses to Mailchimp, images are served from Uploadcare, and a Truth Social embed is hardcoded with static CDN URLs. None of this is government infrastructure.

Has no certificate pinning. Standard Android trust management.

Ships with dev artifacts in production. A localhost URL, a developer IP (10.4.4.109), the Expo dev client, and an exported Compose PreviewActivity.

Profiles users extensively through OneSignal - tags, SMS numbers, cross-device aliases, outcome tracking, notification interaction logging, in-app message click tracking, and full user state observation.

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… and?
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> It’s hard to imagine a smug article like this dissecting a product of some other administration

Did the other administration put a "fake news" and "report to ICE" and grifting link to their own social network in their apps? I feel like you are perhaps papering over a whole lot of general shittiness of this app that didn't exist in less amateur previous administrations that at least tried to follow the norms.

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They had a way in offical apps to report people for not masking or for standing too close to each other. In Massachusetts you could dial 211 and turn in your neighbor: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/10/06/massachuse...
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You can report anything.

The only case they cite of an actual intervention resulting seems... entirely legit?

> An adult entertainment club lost its liquor license after a dancer and others were seen not wearing masks, the state said.

People call 911 for goofy things, too.

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Did they break down your door or shoot your SO in the head for not wearing a mask?
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Isn't that state based?

Also I'd say the federal government's approach to ICE deportations is a little stronger than even the COVID measures.

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> It’s hard to imagine a smug article like this dissecting a product of some other administration.

Yes, that's because this administration is uniquely awful. Basically every single thing this administration does is bad. Often so bad that it's legitimately impressive just how incompetent our leaders our.

Obviously previous administrations were not perfect, but to sit here and pretend that they are on the same level is delusion.

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Yes, giving a terorist regime billions of dollars of US tax payer money is so much more competent than decapitating it in a few hours. The “Emma’s Two Moms” campaign was a much more competent recruiting strategy. If we have anymore competence, we’ll be broke!
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