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That is why I suggested the post office. It is highly regulated but separate enough from "the government" (at least in the US). I expect that many people would
by l72 3y ago
That is why I suggested the post office. It is highly regulated but separate enough from "the government" (at least in the US).
I expect that many people would still use 3rd party providers for personal email and less important things. But it is certainly nice to be able to have bank statements, tax documents, or any business with government services conducted through a verified email.
- l72 3y agoAlso, the post office would have lots of incentive to implement encryption (s/mime or pgp) as they aren't interested in analyzing messages. They would want to make sure that government services can send secure communication to you.
- phone8675309 3y agoI disagree with this particular point. The US Postal Service has searched, read, and censored mail during wartime, and it's naive to assume that any provisioning of email service wouldn't have the ability embedded in it at behest of whatever legislation authorizes to the USPS to do so. Also, given the current political climate, I would be very concerned that the Comstock Laws are coming back. Can you imagine your email provider blocking or maybe even criminally prosecuting people who send you information about contraception, safe sex, abortion, or legal sex work?
- l72 3y agoI'm not suggesting that anybody would be required to use their government provided email for everything. I am just suggesting that it should be available to every citizen as a right, since a reliable email address is so important to every day life now. I wouldn't be sending anything through my government email that I would sent through the post mail. I would be cautious about sending anything through email, as it probably ends up in gmail unencrypted as it is, and is transmitted in the open through multiple relays. But, we also know that Google, Yahoo, and other _do_ scan all your email. I'm not sure why you feel any safer with a huge corporation that has no oversight.
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- phone8675309 3y ago> I'm not sure why you feel any safer with a huge corporation that has no oversight. A huge corporation with no oversight can, at worst, terminate my account unilaterally. Maybe they want to sue me, but that will go to a neutral arbiter (the courts). A government run email platform can, at worst, arrest me or send a SWAT team to my house.