> Have this ever happen in history before? How bad can something be that users go out in the street to demostrate?
We used to have this in Ukraine but the war successfully halted all the strikes. To tell shortly, any shop which sells anything must report on any buying to the authority. This is kinda stupid because if you are selling something on weight, you need to jongle with too many devices: a weight-meter to weight (it can accept a cost of something being weighted), then a calc to sum if number of goods is more than 1, then a laptop to fill a message to an authority, then a terminal to let client pay with card. The programs the authority gives us just can not deal with goods which are selling on weight, so we are cheating them kind of I can not tell the government that I have sold a one kilogram of rice for ₴60 but I can tell that I sold 60 candies each per ₴1 (the fact that ₴60 is going to my bank account is definitely visible by thems and this number requires to be grounded). Imagine a girl who do not like to be a technician and she goes to be a seller in a grocery shop, and what she gets today? A lot of typing job. Guess how many seller girls in Ukraine can touchtype if there are no mandatory touchtype lessons in our school even now.
And do you know what the laptops are doing in Ukrainian grocery shops? They are running an account software in browser.
This seems like a horribly-implemented tax enforcement system? France has something similar in NF525, but it's nowhere near as intrusive. Hopefully somewhere along the reconstruction there is time to improve this system.
Software registrar of settlement operations do not make my taxes to grow (buying laptops and internet connection is not a tax because it is possible to use nothing except of one smartphone for everything). So, I would call it a surveillance enforcement.
My opinion is that we the people used to allow a lot of misrights to us: firstly by using a lot of proprietary software which turns to smartphonisation of everything under the rule of Google/Apple; then by eating with pleasure all the covid restrictions; this is just another step at tightening up the bolts. Kind of notoriously "Patriot Act" in US: nobody would agree with it before 9/11, and nobody wants it today - but nobody used to have enough balls to protest it immediately after 9/11 when the emotion level was hysterically high.
We used to have this in Ukraine but the war successfully halted all the strikes. To tell shortly, any shop which sells anything must report on any buying to the authority. This is kinda stupid because if you are selling something on weight, you need to jongle with too many devices: a weight-meter to weight (it can accept a cost of something being weighted), then a calc to sum if number of goods is more than 1, then a laptop to fill a message to an authority, then a terminal to let client pay with card. The programs the authority gives us just can not deal with goods which are selling on weight, so we are cheating them kind of I can not tell the government that I have sold a one kilogram of rice for ₴60 but I can tell that I sold 60 candies each per ₴1 (the fact that ₴60 is going to my bank account is definitely visible by thems and this number requires to be grounded). Imagine a girl who do not like to be a technician and she goes to be a seller in a grocery shop, and what she gets today? A lot of typing job. Guess how many seller girls in Ukraine can touchtype if there are no mandatory touchtype lessons in our school even now.
And do you know what the laptops are doing in Ukrainian grocery shops? They are running an account software in browser.