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[–] iopq@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is the search engine your government hosts? Or maybe they do email? Do tell

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those are some pretty specific additional qualifiers. Did I hit a nerve?

I'm responsing to someone claiming governments inherently cannot be good providers of essential services, which is patently untrue.

The nordics are home to numerous government institutions, providing a variety of services that are perfectly satisfactory, and often excellent.

Are you claiming that email or search engines not being among them today, means the rest mean nothing, or that they never will be?

If the current services are anything to go by, those things getting added to the list, will be fucking great.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Who said anything about essential services? It's the nonessential services that I have a problem with

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You classify email and internet search as non-essential?

And what does how they are classified have to do with the ability/inability of government to provide them in a sufficient manner?

You claimed something that HAS HAPPENED, could not. There's no comeback here for you to find.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You think email is a human right? It's a box to send password resets. If websites all used one time paaswords, I wouldn't need my email. You don't actually send messages to people over email, do you?

We have things like Signal and Matrix to facilitate actually communicating with people.

Last time I sent an email to someone it bounced. Imagine spending time writing a letter and the mailman returns it to you

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Also, you're digressing.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I merely consider it necessary to function in modern society, and hence a service a government might conceivably provide.

You really like making assumptions about what I mean, and twisting my words, huh?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It's not necessary