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> The big companies Governments all over the world use email nowadays for all kinds of their own services, but which country offers free email to all their cit
by cblconfederate 5y ago
> The big companies
Governments all over the world use email nowadays for all kinds of their own services, but which country offers free email to all their citizens? What about social networking or search? State broadcasters have existed for decades, yet nothing exists as fallback from big tech.
- luckylion 5y agoWould you want to use an email account provided by your government? State broadcasters are a good point, but we tend to claim they aren't really "by the state" but "by the public", and thus independent from the state. Countries that don't do that (e.g. Russia, China) have invested heavily to have their local versions of Google, Facebook & friends.
- l-lousy 5y agoI would use one as a source of universal online ID in account recovery, not for everyday use
- fallingknife 5y agoIf it were e2e encrypted or had the same rules as the post office has to follow about when they can spy on your mail I would be fine with it.
- dantheman 5y agoThe post office tracks who sends mail to who for everyone.
- Aerroon 5y agoEstonia gives a government email address to its citizens. I use it for some real world services, especially related to government. I kind of regret it, because the address is now inundated with spam. Apparently some of these services made that information publicly available.
- cblconfederate 5y agoFor official functions yes. As for trust, i trust my gov more than google