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0xbadcafebee on Dec 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: DIY Mail

Here's a list of nationalized postal services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_postal_servic...

Nationalized digital mail isn't that much of a stretch. You can still run private digital mail, just like you can hire private physical mail couriers.

But probably it won't happen. Capitalist countries prefer private industry does things. E-mail could become a regulated utility, though.

alex_duf on Dec 28, 2021 [–]

My point (albeit subtly made) was that there isn't a central authority that controls emails, you can't just buy emails and then run it as a national service. And that's before you look into which government runs what.

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