top | item 21886889 (no title) archie2 | 6 years ago As terrible as this is, access to Wikipedia is hardly a "right". discuss order hn newest woodandsteel|6 years ago If a right is something that makes society better if people have it, then access to Wikipedia or something like it is definitely a right.And in fact it falls under freedom of speech and freedom of the press. archie2|6 years ago > If a right is something that makes society better if people have it.That's not what a right is. Saying that access to Wikipedia is a right implies the ability to coerce somebody to give it to you if you lack it. At best it's a privilege.
woodandsteel|6 years ago If a right is something that makes society better if people have it, then access to Wikipedia or something like it is definitely a right.And in fact it falls under freedom of speech and freedom of the press. archie2|6 years ago > If a right is something that makes society better if people have it.That's not what a right is. Saying that access to Wikipedia is a right implies the ability to coerce somebody to give it to you if you lack it. At best it's a privilege.
archie2|6 years ago > If a right is something that makes society better if people have it.That's not what a right is. Saying that access to Wikipedia is a right implies the ability to coerce somebody to give it to you if you lack it. At best it's a privilege.
woodandsteel|6 years ago
And in fact it falls under freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
archie2|6 years ago
That's not what a right is. Saying that access to Wikipedia is a right implies the ability to coerce somebody to give it to you if you lack it. At best it's a privilege.