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You may be right. His name sounds Russian or Slavic. Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some co

You may be right. His name sounds Russian or Slavic. Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some country, ban him only there.

kurbli 11mo ago
If you look at the about page, there are telltale signs that he is from Slovakia, which is an EU country, just like a bunch of other Slavic countries, such as Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria.
- disgruntledphd2 11mo ago
  It's almost certainly fraud or AML concerns. Companies are not allowed to explain this stuff.
ig0r0 11mo ago
Please do not call me a Russian .. I am Slovak.
- veeti 11mo ago
  Have you considered filing a complaint with your local data protection agency? Perhaps they could escalate your GDPR request.
aaomidi 11mo ago
That’s not how US secondary sanctions work.
gruez 11mo ago
>Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some country, ban him only there. But Apple is an American company? If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever, Apple has to abide those sanctions, even if he's not sanctioned in whatever country he lives in.
- lapcat 11mo ago
  > If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever Unless you have specific incriminating evidence, please don't present this hypothetical nonsense as if it's a real possibility. Here's more information about the author: https://blog.kulman.sk/about/ https://blog.kulman.sk/about/ What a shame that comments keep mentioning Russia just because the author's name is not "John Smith" or something.
  - thisislife2 11mo ago
    People (including me) are trying to guess probable cause, and being associated in any manner with Russia or a Russian company could get you barred from many western online services. You don't even have to be Russian to test this - I am an indian and I couldn't sign-up to try IBM (or was it Oracle?) cloud with a yandex mail id.

You may be right. His name sounds Russian or Slavic. Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some country, ban him only there.

kurbli 11mo ago

If you look at the about page, there are telltale signs that he is from Slovakia, which is an EU country, just like a bunch of other Slavic countries, such as Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria.

disgruntledphd2 11mo ago
It's almost certainly fraud or AML concerns. Companies are not allowed to explain this stuff.

ig0r0 11mo ago

Please do not call me a Russian .. I am Slovak.

veeti 11mo ago
Have you considered filing a complaint with your local data protection agency? Perhaps they could escalate your GDPR request.

aaomidi 11mo ago

That’s not how US secondary sanctions work.

gruez 11mo ago

>Even then, another country's law shouldn't trump your own country's law. If he is on a blacklist of some country, ban him only there. But Apple is an American company? If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever, Apple has to abide those sanctions, even if he's not sanctioned in whatever country he lives in.

lapcat 11mo ago
> If he's sanctioned for being a Putin affiliate or whatever Unless you have specific incriminating evidence, please don't present this hypothetical nonsense as if it's a real possibility. Here's more information about the author: https://blog.kulman.sk/about/ https://blog.kulman.sk/about/ What a shame that comments keep mentioning Russia just because the author's name is not "John Smith" or something.
- thisislife2 11mo ago
  People (including me) are trying to guess probable cause, and being associated in any manner with Russia or a Russian company could get you barred from many western online services. You don't even have to be Russian to test this - I am an indian and I couldn't sign-up to try IBM (or was it Oracle?) cloud with a yandex mail id.