Why government-issued? Could just as well become a de-facto corporate monopoly by Google or someone else. Is Gmail the “standard” email or is it a government-ba

Why government-issued? Could just as well become a de-facto corporate monopoly by Google or someone else. Is Gmail the “standard” email or is it a government-backed one? This problem has been coined “Digital Feudalism”. And medieval feudalism (or at least our popular conception of it) wasn’t driven by governments.