News websites wanting to charge you money in order to read their articles. 💵

IT’S A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT FOR F*CKS SAKE!!

Edit: I’ve seen some people have commented about other stuff that really grinds their gears. Just wanted to say, go ahead and take it out. 👍

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Since when is access to news a human right?

    But you have always needed to pay for news, well before the internet, either directly or indirectly

    • Granixo@feddit.clOP
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      1 year ago

      The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was created on December 10th, 1948.

      Here’s a link related to Article 19 (the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers):

      https://www.unesco.org/en/right-information

      And while you do have a point when it comes to the history of paying for the news, i think there’s a clear distinction between paying for a paper newsletter or Cable TV, and having to pay for a small, individual article, no more than 2 pages long. (Because let’s be real, so far there are no news websites worth paying a subscription for).

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        1 year ago

        It also describes a right to own property but I don’t think that anyone would argue that you should receive that property for free.

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          Housing is an example of property given freely in Socialist states such as the USSR and PRC.

          Hell, if even North Korea can do it, why can’t we?

          It may be nice having rights like that, but if you can’t even exercise them, what’s the point to begin with if your material conditions remain untouched?