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Critical services like email and search should be treated as a public utility. Those cost money as well, but are affordable to almost anyone, and social safety nets should be taking care of those who don’t.

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Government email, sounds great. Sign me up.

I’m assuming a sane country where the right to privacy [0] holds.

[0] e.g.: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_...

I can't wait for the EU to preemptively delete emails with language that is supposedly deemed offensive or possibly containing misinformation or god forbid, pictures of my nieces and nephews which could be interpreted as child grooming.

Yes, we should all let the governments decide if we should have access to our email addresses and pinky promise they won't use your data against you if one day you decide to disparage the sitting president/prime minister of the country you reside in.

Corporations bad! Government good! M'kay!

The infra is what’s expensive, and that doesn’t need to be able to read the contents of your email.

Just make sure you don't say anything against our glorious leader while you are on it. Surely nothing will go wrong if we give the state physical control over private communications.

Government physical mail is pretty great, you just need the right regulations.

Government physical mail has the benefit that substantial tampering is way harder to do at scale.

It's the same vein as criminals using cash vs Bitcoin; both can hide crime, but one is way easier to scale up.

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