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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 22:05:49 JST Aral Balkan

   Freedom in technology must include freedom from technology.

   We must not create a societies where the price of admission is owning a device controlled by one of two trillion-dollar US corporations.

   We must safeguard people’s access to public services and the everyday necessities of life via alternate methods.

   Technology should always be a progressive enhancement.

   Do not let Silicon Valley privatise your access to modern life.

   #technology #society #access #humanRights

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 22:11:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Aurimas Černius

     @aurisc4 That is a necessity of modern life, wouldn’t you say?

   • Aurimas Černius (aurisc4@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 22:11:44 JST Aurimas Černius

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     @aral what about banking?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 22:19:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Aurimas Černius

     @aurisc4 Kids can live that way because they have parents with bank accounts.

     So should you be able to live without using a bank? Yes. Is it practical to? Not really. Should it be legal to require either an Apple or Google phone to have a bank account? No.

   • Aurimas Černius (aurisc4@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 22:19:21 JST Aurimas Černius

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     @aral not really, consider that kids don't usually have bank accounts and are fine with using cash. Why can't adult live that way?
     Just that in case of banks even in small countries you have a choice of more than two, while with mobiles there are more than two options, but the two dominate so much, that no one cares about the others.

   • levampyre (levampyre@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 23:06:58 JST levampyre

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     @aral Oh, our daughter was almost dropped as a patient by her medical provider, when we chose to not give consent to electronic processing of her health data - until we pointed out that this is illegal under GDPR regulations.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 00:10:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • littletree

     @littletree I’m not sure I am https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

   • littletree (littletree@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 00:10:56 JST littletree

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     @aral you're confusing technology with monopoly and capitalism.

     You can have sustainable/social/community owned technology that doesn't harm you more than non-technological alternatives would do.

     Technology is a tool, at this point we should also not use printers because they allow to print nazi manifests...

     The main issue is corrupt or incompetent politicians. Often both.