Freedom of Information

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow

As long as knowledge can be owned it will never be free. Aron

As long as a man can be owned, no man is free, so as long as information and knowledge can be owned, no information will ever be quite free... The problem with the english language is that we don't distinguish between ($)free($) and freedom. I suppose a man's freedom is not sold and bought anymore, and so it is free, but this is because it is priceless, not because its price is nothing... Certain information (like the knowledge that all man are created equal) is also priceless, and must also be free... but unfortunately, I fear that Americans will find a way to put a price on it, just as we are quickly putting a price on other valuable things (like clean air and water, and open land, and natural resources, and even love...) Why can't we value something without putting a price on it? We even put a price on life itself (actuary tables anyone?)

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. Epictetus (from Discourses)