Smartphone Required 📲 (digital exclusion of people without smartphones)

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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/smartphone_required@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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.

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[–] evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

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

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