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Why is there no opposition to this shit? SIMs were physical for a reason. As a consumer what do you get out of it? You have to go through the carriers to switch between phones now! You can't just pick up a random unlocked phone and put a sim in it. No more burner phones. I have been in situations where I changed SIM between phones multiple times a day.

But it sounds like it is too late for this. It's like people who oppose cash payments out of the convenience of card/app payments. This small chipping away of a small libery adds up.

I hope eveyone knows that you can't as a layman register an email address or any meaningful service you depend on without a phone number (i.e.: a sim), that is what is being regulated here even more.

parent _8j50 4 years ago

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