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> Unless all around the world is the usual "world === USA". Not at all. US isn't even the leader on this. For example in many countries it's already much harde
by deaux 11mo ago
> Unless all around the world is the usual "world === USA".
Not at all. US isn't even the leader on this. For example in many countries it's already much harder to do any kind of digital banking without a Google/Apple-approved phone than in the US.
In Europe as well, more and more places where it's completely the norm for schools and teachers to do all their communication through Facebook or Whatsapp. Sure those have web, but are arguably the worst of the three. Portugal nor most European countries are above this at all. If only they were. Look at all the national IDs rolled out, those too more and more mandatory Apple/Android 2FA.
Will Portuguese teachers never downgrade any students who do all their homework on e.g. OpenOffice and it doesn't look nice on the teacher's MS Office? Doubt it.
- pjmlp 11mo agoMost students in Portugal still deliver their work assigments in paper, and if they want a computer, parents buy one to have at home, usually shared by all that are going to school. We have had national IDs since forever, with fingerprints, we don't go crazy about it like in some other countries, even though we suffered a dictorship with lots of human losses, colonial wars, and even though PIDE/DGS wasn't KGB or Stasi level, it also managed to impact our society. I should know, I am part of the first generation to grow up in freedom, while hearing the grown up stories of how everything came to be.
- petre 11mo agoYou also don't have stupid website age verification laws, at least not yet. Dunno what bs the EU Comission is going to come up with in the future.
- deaux 11mo agoSo which non-Meta platforms do schools and teachers primarily use to communicate with parents and students? How well is the Apple/Google-less digital banking in Portugal holding up? I'm sure like you're saying things in Portugal are better than average for Europe, but it's not representative.
- pjmlp 11mo agoMoving goal posts, your comment was all about Google/Apple cartel forcing kids and what not. By the way, some schools still understand emails, telephone calls, reporting books, and meetings in person. Here is an high school example, using a non-Meta platform, just because, https://espn.edu.pt/ https://espn.edu.pt/
- deaux 11mo agoYou're moving goalposts - my bigger point was about daily life becoming impossible without Google/Apple, and digital banking is one of the prime examples of this. On top of that Meta is the natural 3rd party in that group.