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Smartphone Required (digital exclusion of people without smartphones)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You basically can't study in a College or a University in Canada if you dont have a cell phone or refuse to install Microsoft crap on it. What a stupid world.

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

Denmark has this problem too. There are some university resources that are unreachable to students who cannot do an SMS 2FA verification.

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

It's actually really discriminatory, on top of forcing student to give their personal data to MS.

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