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1w ago

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address

Crossposted from https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4213592

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1w ago

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address

grist.org /extreme-weather/fema-now-requires-disaster-victims-to-have-an-email-address/

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Sunshine (she/her) @piefed.ca

1w ago

FEMA now requires disaster victims to have an email address

grist.org /extreme-weather/fema-now-requires-disaster-victims-to-have-an-email-address/

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It's criminal to be poor, obviously.
Just like it's criminal to be brown or black.
- In America, even the poorest person can afford a device with cellular or WiFi access. I’m not contesting that society discriminates against the poor or non-Whites, but I don’t see the discrimination here. Anyone can have access to email.
  
  There are so many remote parts of America that don’t have internet and library access that many of us do.
  
  Come down to Appalachia, where vast areas have no cellular signal at all nor ISP available.
  
  Tell that to my 90 year old grandfather.
Ah, then the internet must be a utility right?
- Should be. Lol. You can thank the Republicans for it not being one.
I don't get it, what's the actual face being eaten here and who does it belong to?
- Rural fucks vote for Republicans overwhelmingly. Rural folks are most likely to not be connected to the internet or have an email address. Republicans now require an email address for FEMA access.
  
  And even for those that do have email and internet access, rural America isn't exactly known for having robust infrastructure or government programs to respond to disasters, so they could quite likely find themselves unable to access their email in the aftermath of a disaster, anyway.
  
  Add to that, even if you have an email address, disaster victims are most likely to loose access to it for long periods when they would need it for this.
  
  Honestly, that seems overly broad to me, since this doesn't seem like the result of any campaign plank that rural voters actually specifically supported, but fair enough. Thanks for the explanation.

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