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Ban Windows at schools (piefed.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by anonymouspl@piefed.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi,
I will be writing petition to my government (Poland) to try to get them to ban Windows at schools. I believe it should be illegal to force children to use systems that are paid and use children’s data for AI and advertising.
Maybe you will do it as well? Let’s end this insane practice.

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having worked at an email provider before, I can assure you that hosting your own email is not, as you put it, "trivially simple." The number of spam filters that sit between every server is insane, and they're all controlled by third parties that, almost universally, deem any server hosted on a residential IP address block to be spam. Even medium-sized commercial providers get blacklisted every so often and have to appeal to the filter providers to get back in business. Hosting it yourself is almost guaranteed to mean that nobody ever gets your emails.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 day ago

The problems you're talking about are not problems of hosting email. Hosting email is trivially simple.

The anticompetitive practices of big tech have to be dealt with a different way. Requiring all schools to host their own email would go a very long way to ending one of those practices. You would see the opaque, unresponsive spam filterers disappear overnight.