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. 👍

  • GranixoOP
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    10 months 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).

    • @nogooduser@lemmy.world
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      1610 months 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.