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Yes, if you think about it it's weird how govt. application forms have an email field. Perhaps email should be nationalized.
by jiggunjer 5y ago
Yes, if you think about it it's weird how govt. application forms have an email field. Perhaps email should be nationalized.
- alex_duf 5y agonationalized by which government?
- jiggunjer 5y agoAll of them ofc. Instead of a few companies controlling an essential service, what's stopping a government from offering every citizen an address at yourid@govmail.country?
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoHere's a list of nationalized postal services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_postal_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_postal_servic... Nationalized digital mail isn't that much of a stretch. You can still run private digital mail, just like you can hire private physical mail couriers. But probably it won't happen. Capitalist countries prefer private industry does things. E-mail could become a regulated utility, though.
- alex_duf 5y agoMy point (albeit subtly made) was that there isn't a central authority that controls emails, you can't just buy emails and then run it as a national service. And that's before you look into which government runs what.