censored for “transphobia”India “was criticized for making #CoWIN the only way for Indians to book a vaccination appointment, excluding millions who didn’t have access to a smartphone or the internet.” Now a massive vaccine database #breach exposes IDs of millions of Indians. This serves as a good example for why people need a #rightToBeOffline.
@rms @freemo A parallel has already played out w/the #rightToBeOnline. Putting everyone online enables the gov to assume everyone has online access, at which point they push you to use their anti-tor captcha-pushing garbage websites. So we need a #rightToBeOffline, so we can invalidate the assumption that we are online.
ActivistUS lawyers: state secretaries have been pushing CAPTCHAs to citizens who attempt to lookup a registered business. If you take the offline analog approach & write to the secretary of state requesting records, they ignore it. Is that legal? Do citizens have a right to access that info, or is that right only for online people? #askFedi #rightToBeOffline
When bankers try to push you to do something online, how do you respond? Do you explain to them their website is a broken #JavaScript infested Tor-hostile piece of shit w/2FA that assumes everyone has GSM svc & will disclose their ph.№ & that their non-FOSS app is spyware? Or do you lie to keep the conversation short by saying “I’m offline”? #AskFedi #banking #rightToBeOffline
We used to have a choice whether to be online, have a mobile phone, and a bank acct. Has anyone noticed that we’ve started to lose these choices as they become mandatory? #warOnCash #rightToBeOffline #fuckGSM
Americans: if your retirement plan admin demands that you sign up for e-statements and they neglect to send you a paper statement automatically, they are violating federal law. Some giant FIs have a policy to force you to take some kind of action to get paper statements (such as registering online to opt-out of e-statements). It’s illegal. #rightToBeOffline #knowYourRights
I don’t suppose it matters either way what reason I give. People like me (who insist on digital social justice) are in such a tiny drop-in-the-ocean minority that orgs & govs aren’t bothered if say 1 person per year forces them to enter form data manually. #rightToBeOffline
@Kalvo @PhoneBoy Wow really? I’ve avoided MS products for decades so I’m out of touch with some of their shenannigangs. This is another reason we need the #rightToBeOffline.
So in effect taxes will indirectly finance a right-wing lobby. It’s also a little unsettling that as we get closer to ppl having the #rightToBeOnline, the #rightToBeOffline will have more work to do. Yes both rights are needed, but the #rightToBeOffline is unknown and off the radar, when it should be recognized at the same time.
When a gov. agency forces you to solve a #reCAPTCHA, don’t do it. Don’t be a pushover. Do shit the old-fashioned way (fax or snail mail). And if the old-fashioned way fails plz tell me b/c I’m tracking these cases. #rightToBeOffline