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"Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help" (hey.paris)
submitted 2 weeks ago by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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Wrote books on Apple software. Bought five figures of gear over decades. Then bought an Apple giftcard, & suddenly permabanned in spite of raising issue with internal contacts.

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Food for thought:

Hacker News comment thread: rvnx: "Lot of arrogant people here who think they are safe and better than anybody and blame OP. It is totally normal in today’s world to depend on cloud services and reasonably difficult to do without it. In China: no WeChat you are practically dead. […]" | Waterluvian: "I’ve interpreted it as a sort of head-in-sand coping mechanism for those low-likelihood, high-consequence events people feel powerless over. It’s less distressing to be powerless if you decide that the real issue was a fault by the victim and not a powerlessness you have in common with the victim."

Always room for disagreement

[–] Broadwayqtpi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is actually a known psychological phenomenon called the Just World Fallacy

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

I'm quite prone to this. Even as I'm consciously resisting slipping into this fallacy, I can still feel that there is a pernicious and persistent kernel at my core that clings to the idea of a just world. For me, it is less about a moral kind of justice, more like a deep belief in some sense of underlying, teleological order to the world.

I know that this is silly, in every way that it is possible to know a thing. And yet, I can't seem to sway that deep down part of me that devoutly believes that actually, everything makes sense.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean I’m not in any danger of losing my personal documents because I have 3 copies stored on various media/services.

I’m also not so heavily invested into any one media or software distribution ecosystem that I would be devastated if lost access to it.

You aren’t powerless unless you make the choice to be. (Either intentionally or just out of not knowing the alternatives)

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Not everyone can afford to have a back up plan.