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The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco

• Ginger-Pickles 3y ago
  https://archive.ph/oE6m7 https://archive.ph/oE6m7
  • oh_gosh 3y ago
    Funny to paywall an article defending the right to information.
  • slaw 3y ago
    How many times I need to prove I am not a robot?
    • abracadaniel 3y ago
      It seems to be iOS related? I tried different DNS, over VPN or not, different browsers. No dice.
      • slaw 3y ago
        Firefox for Android. Somehow Firefox on Windows, even in private mode doesn't challenge me.
• xg15 3y ago
  > But it did not appear that way to the writers who took to Twitter to point out that the books in the library were written by human beings who were often poorly paid and not benefiting from this free information at all. Kindly ask your publishers why they pay you so poorly. > [An author of popular books for young adults] wrote in a 23-post broadside on Twitter that offering up free books to an audience that could afford to pay for them was, “at this point in history, cutting into our money for hospital and/or funeral bills.” Kindly ask your politicians why the US still has no socialized healthcare.
  • rexpop 3y ago
    > ask your politicians why the US still has no socialized healthcare Better we should ask our employers whose regulatory capture blocks socialized healthcare.