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by archie2 2360 days ago
As terrible as this is, access to Wikipedia is hardly a "right".
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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.

> 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.