Smartphone Required (digital exclusion of people without smartphones)

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(US/Texas) Now requires a smartphone to renew vehicle registration online? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recall successfully renewing my registration several times online before, but now they want a phone number and they are pushing some weird government smartphone app "to handle your government todo items"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1jPv45CHN8

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

C'mon dude. ACTUAL fascism is taking shape in several countries across the globe right now.

This registration this is BULLSHIT. I won't argue that. But to say it's fascism is like screaming at a jewish guy that his store policy makes him hitler.

It's a bit much for that situation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

One notion of fascism is gaining control to information by eradicating privacy and using that information to enforce control over the individual.