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> the option for not having the official COVID green pass app here in Italy is to find an authorized place that will print you a green pass on paper, and it's

by Rayhem 5y ago

> the option for not having the official COVID green pass app here in Italy is to find an authorized place that will print you a green pass on paper, and it's hard to find one, let alone schedule everything and get there without a pre-existing pass Apple's pseudomonopoly does not strike me as the root cause issue here, developing processes and using tech to solve a people problem does.

Hamcha 5y ago
When the public administration does things with pen and paper, it's blamed for being ancient and "should get with the times". Now they are getting on with the times, but the times are ones ruled by giant American companies with no regulation. Also, it's the country's duty to protect citizens from themselves using laws and regulations. For an example of what kind of "far west" digital tech is living right now, I point you back to before TV was regulated as heavily as today, where companies used cartoons to advertise smoking cigarettes to children (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c).