On 9 December 2014 at 20:35, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
As I've said elsewhere, it's percieved as
desirable by many first-worlders
because we equate that as "everything is equally inexpensive" to level the
playing field.
Except that for the vast majority of the world's population, it means
"everything is equally expensive and unafordable".
You may well have nailed the two-liner of why Wikipedia Zero is a good idea.
If we fail to understand the necessity to make
exceptions or the
desirability of making Free Knowledge /effectively/ available to the world
then it *is* an absolutist stance.
Rather, not *our* absolutism.
- d.