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Originally Posted by shakran
This will sound. . Odd. . But information dissemination cannot be a public good. It was a public good in the USSR. . . and in Germany in the 30's and 40's.. . And look where it got them.
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The American public library system is comparatively good -- even compared to Europe -- and it's based on the idea of information as a public good. It has more to do with Ben Franklin than Stalin or Hitler.