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One place to start - we must all have the right to live off-line. This must apply broadly. There must be no need for an app for health care, parking, schools,
by eesmith 1y ago
One place to start - we must all have the right to live off-line.
This must apply broadly. There must be no need for an app for health care, parking, schools, transit, tolls, package delivery, hotels, restaurants, retirement, banking, and other things which 10 years ago had perfectly reasonable and affordable non-app access.
This analog alternative must be reasonable. It can't be that non-app access is only available, for example, every fifth Monday of the month.
If you think the unelected people who control your phone are doing the wrong thing, then you must be able to boycott them and still live a regular life, perhaps with a few more in-person visits than you expected.
This right applies more broadly.
I read about a blind man in France who wanted to take the train. The local station no longer had ticket service, not even a machine. The app didn't support blind people. He got on the train and ended up having to pay a fee as he had no valid ticket.
A ticket machine, or the ability to pay onboard from staff when coming in from a station without a ticket machine, is a perfectly reasonable analog alternative.