2025/10/24

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Knowledge Access is a Human Rights Issue

● 24/10/2025
“Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have the books they need.”
– Digital rights advocate Rory Mir, on how publishing gatekeepers have turned access to knowledge into a human rights issue. Mir argues that predatory paywalls and corporate control over academic research make “a mockery of open inquiry,” urging for decentralized Open Science infrastructure as the necessary alternative.
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