On 9 December 2014 at 20:35, Marc A. Pelletier marc@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.