this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
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Smartphone Required (digital exclusion of people without smartphones)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

All this is true. Having tech like this as more and more a requirement is scary, totalitarian sci-fi stuff, and it would be a truly serious problem if there was a future.