Dusted.dk ponders about email and the right to online existence
[0][1]. I agree that everyone should have the right to a personal
and stable email address. I'd add also that (high-speed) internet
access is an essential public service. Unless you are a hermit
living in East Bumfuck, with no living relatives and no need to work
or buy anything at all, you need internet access and you need an
email address.

Online is now the default for everything. The pandemic has made this
all the more apparent. It's safer to order groceries online than it
is to go into the store. Job postings are online, along with default
assumptions about everyone having an email address, and that is, at
a minimum, how you converse with potential employers.

Interviews are now by remote video - I hope you have a decent,
high-speed internet connection, which you'll need once you start
working remotely. Government services are increasingly online and
far more accessible that way. Secondary school and university
courses are now being taught online for more and more people. I
could go on, but in short, internet access and email should be basic
human rights.

[0]: gopher://dusted.dk:70/0/pages/phlog/2020-10-15.txt
[1]: gopher://dusted.dk:70/0/pages/phlog/2020-11-02.txt