Am 22.09.2017 um 07:12 schrieb Carsten Agger: ...
- I want to park my car in the city, but it's only possible to pay by
downloading one of two proprietary apps (real-world situation in Copenhagen) on my smartphone. Can I refuse to pay an eventual fine on the grounds that I couldn't pay?
This sort of thing is becoming more and more evident and it angers me no end. The problem is that there are almost no true politically controlled public-service organisations any more like there used to be, they are at best now publicly owned, but managed like private companies.
Therefore they do what they want and are under no legal obligation to serve the public. Most countries have in this way privatized their Post Offices including Girobanks, telephone companies, power and water utilities, radio and TV stations.
I expect that this sort of thing will become the norm in this increasingly neoliberal world, as in this aspect even social democrats and greens follow the mainstream, and I guess there is nothing we can do about it except vote extreme left, (or maybe some cases extreme right), or if available the Pirate Party. And of course COMPLAIN COMPLAIN COMPLAIN! Or drop out!
Regards, Theo