Offline Rights is community of readers resisting digital coercion. Ordinary citizens should never require internet access or ownership of a mobile phone for banking, voting, tax, public transport, nutrition, health care and education.

Its readers are those who are done shaking heads and shrugging shoulders at trends heading in exactly that direction.

They have recognised that convenience comes at the cost of human interaction and mental health. That ease makes us helplessly dependent on big tech, functioning cybersecurity, working devices and a stable power supply.

They also understand that the elderly, the homeless, the lesser-educated and those with disabilities don’t find apps as easy as everyone else. That the cost of a smartphone is actually too much for some segments of society.

Offline Rights readers believe that if we act together, we can send a message.

So they’re willing to say ‘no’ to emerging coercive trends through their purchasing decisions, consumer behaviour, political engagement and use of technology.

And they’re willing to say ‘yes’ to in-person service, cash payments, real-world processes and trust. They do this in the same way: purchasing decisions, consumer behaviour, political engagement and use of technology.

This channel is for sharing each reader’s action and contributions with other readers. It is also for communicating such action directly to the businesses, governments and institutions concerned, via The Boycott List and The Good Guys list. More on how that works here.

Offline Rights is neither anti-technology, anti-smartphone, anti-internet, anti-capitalist nor even anti-establishment. It is simply for people who take issue with tech utopians in high places thoughtlessly allowing these things to become life essentials. The only necessities must be those that come from nature: food, water, shelter and clothing.