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Most people can’t drop google at any time. They can’t afford buying a new phone, buying a new computer (all those chrome book users), and everything else. Bein
by mfer 6y ago
Most people can’t drop google at any time. They can’t afford buying a new phone, buying a new computer (all those chrome book users), and everything else.
Being able to transition off google has become a privilege that’s especially difficult on low income folks.
- bluecalm 6y agoYou're forgetting a privilege to have a cheap phone, free maps, free decent email provider, cheap usable computer etc. It's possible thanks to Google. Of course it's costly to transition the same way it would be costly to get those services if Google wasn't around.
- josefx 6y ago> cheap phone Had one before android existed. > free decent email provider, Still use the same I used before gmail was a thing. > cheap usable computer etc I cannot comprehend from what kind of twisted alternate reality this claim hails. Or did you simply forget to mark your sarcasm with /s ?
- bluecalm 6y agoThen you can use those options as Google didn't exist. The thing is the quality is so much better thanks to them people choose the products. The phone you had before Android wouldn't fulfill a purpose people buy phones these days. If you don't remember how much better Gmail was than email providers back in the day I don't know what to tell you.
- emteycz 6y agoA phone or a computer is not a basic human need. But even then, maybe let's use the EU to provide open phones instead of destroying the only thing available?
- dredmorbius 6y ago"U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right" https://www.wired.com/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/ https://www.wired.com/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access
- emteycz 6y agoMy country's constitution nor the EU have such claims anywhere. The UN can say whatever it wants, it's not an authority here.
- krzyk 6y agoIt is an authority just not for you.
- emteycz 6y agoThat's what I said, it's not an authority here, neither for me or my government.
- hungryforcodes 6y agoPeople are totally cut off from modern society without some kind of phone or computer. I’m not sure you can say they are not a basic human need.
- elygre 6y agoWhat would count as basic human needs, according to your country’s constitution?
- emteycz 6y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_Rights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human...