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Critical services like email and search should be treated as a public utility. Those cost money as well, but are affordable to almost anyone, and social safety
by layer8 8mo ago
Critical services like email and search should be treated as a public utility. Those cost money as well, but are affordable to almost anyone, and social safety nets should be taking care of those who don’t.
- bengale 8mo agoGovernment email, sounds great. Sign me up.
- sollewitt 8mo agoGovernment physical mail is pretty great, you just need the right regulations.
- gameman144 8mo agoGovernment physical mail has the benefit that substantial tampering is way harder to do at scale. It's the same vein as criminals using cash vs Bitcoin; both can hide crime, but one is way easier to scale up.
- teaearlgraycold 8mo agoThe infra is what’s expensive, and that doesn’t need to be able to read the contents of your email.
- layer8 8mo agoI’m assuming a sane country where the right to privacy [0] holds. [0] e.g.: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights#:~:text=Article%2011.%20Right%20to%20Privacy https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_...
- iguhhyfchh 8mo ago[dead]
- rdm_blackhole 8mo agoI can't wait for the EU to preemptively delete emails with language that is supposedly deemed offensive or possibly containing misinformation or god forbid, pictures of my nieces and nephews which could be interpreted as child grooming. Yes, we should all let the governments decide if we should have access to our email addresses and pinky promise they won't use your data against you if one day you decide to disparage the sitting president/prime minister of the country you reside in. Corporations bad! Government good! M'kay!
- pibaker 8mo agoJust make sure you don't say anything against our glorious leader while you are on it. Surely nothing will go wrong if we give the state physical control over private communications.