Comment by ceejayoz

4 days ago

I have, and I have the same objection. Do you have a response to it other than “change society to 15 years ago”?

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grishka  4 days ago

No, why should I? I'm not proposing to "change society to 15 years ago", my idea is more selective. It's more like "do a thorough review and restore all the mechanisms that made the use of smartphones and internet optional".

  • zadikian  4 days ago

    It seems pretty optional in the US at least. My phone has been broken for extended periods of time before. But different story trying to use budget European airlines like Wizz that require an app to get a boarding pass.

  • john_strinlai  4 days ago

    >"do a thorough review and restore all the mechanisms that made the use of smartphones and internet optional".

    we should probably workshop ideas that are within reality.

    downvoters are welcome to tell me how they would approach a worlwide review of everything that requires internet and un-internet it. i will wait.

    some primer questions to get your brain turning: who organizes and conducts the review? who pays for the review? who pays for the implementations? whats the messaging and how do you convince people to go along with rethinking/re-implementing their entire already-working infrastructure that they have potentially spent millions to billions of dollars on? do you just dissolve all of the internet-only services, and tell the founders to suck it? who enforces it and how?

    • EvanAnderson  4 days ago

      Consumer protection legislation would be a way to solve this:

      If a business has more than X employees / does more than X amount of business per year / has more than X physical locations (pick one or more, make up some new criteria, tune to suit the needs of society) it must offer the same capabilities to interact with the business to those without smart phones as those with.

      Small businesses wouldn't be radically impacted because they generally aren't "Internet only" anyway. The large business that are impacted have plenty of resources to handle compliance. If anything I'd argue it levels the playing field to an extent.

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