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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 18:59:07 JST Aral Balkan

   In a world with kings, our only agency is to beg “please, sir, be kind.”

   https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

   #apple #BigTech #technomonarchy #sovereignty #humanRights #democracy

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     The Servitor (theservitor@sigmoid.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 23:39:33 JST The Servitor

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     @aral

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 23:41:47 JST 翠星石

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     • Hendrik Pfaff 🇪🇺:verified:
     @HendrikPfaff @aral I hope that apple refuses to reinstate his account and thus saves him from them.
     
     Being an iSheep, unfortunately he still hasn't learned of proprietary software and his consequences and started planning how to move from apple to GNU/Linux-libre (he could instead move to proprietary GNU/Linux, but he'll only get burned again).
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     Hendrik Pfaff 🇪🇺:verified: (hendrikpfaff@ioc.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 14-Dec-2025 23:41:48 JST Hendrik Pfaff 🇪🇺:verified:

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     @aral I honestly feel bad for him and hope his account gets restored. However, this definitely serves as a cautionary tale for everyone solely dependent on #bigTech #MegaCorps...