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As the world we know gets even more digitalized events like these are just going to become even more common..

The question arises if the government should intervene and finally make the internet and the online profile it comes with it a basic fundamental right?

E.g. when you go and pick up your personal I.D. you should also get your personal email and credentials, so no corporation can make you disappear online..

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The Finnish post office provides email for people (with some extras, like letters from participating senders can show up digital-only). For a while that also served as a centralized authentication service; I think that has mostly migrated to being done by banks.

Of course, the UX sucks and nobody sane would use it for anything useful, but it is a backup email address you'd be unlikely to be kicked off of.

sounds too good to be true

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