There has been a fight for the right to be online (in part to push for Internet in rural America & for the poor). Superficially that's fair, but the problem is govs already operate with the assumption that people are online. So people are being forced to use & trust svcs from dubious gov-admin'd sites (e.g. #Cloudflare). How can I opt out? Now we need a right to be *offline*.
The right to be online should be coupled with a right to be offline.
@resist1984 And more generally, freedom should mean having options.
@resist1984 a bit of a tangent, but: same with "smart/IoT" devices.
I said it before -- as long as the core functionality is not related to networked computing (say, toaster, fridge, washing machine, TV screen) I should be able to buy a device with the same parameters as a "smart/IoT" device but with the "smart/IoT" capabilities *provably* disabled or (ideally) not existent.
@resist1984 or regulation requiring provably disabled smart/IoT functionality in such cases.
@resist1984 Similarly with free software, I heard some people say that the freedom to use (freedom 0) should be amended with a freedom to refuse.