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by LiberatedLlama 1959 days ago
> Leaving Pakistan means shutting down their Pakistani App Store, so the app still won't be available.

If Apple chose not to exercise totalitarian control over iOS users by making their App Store essential to installing software on iOS devices, then Apple would not have to collaborate with the totalitarian Pakistani government. Pakistani religious and ethnic minorities could distribute software through whatever covert channels they've already established to resist their oppressive government.