Information should be free to the public, because it is mostly only avail be to college professors and college students. Most people do not even go to college for one reason or another but that does not mean they should not be able to get a hold of information. Many people do not go to college because it is to expansive and because colleges have to pay data bases to use them for information that only makes school cost much more as to if it was free more people would be able to afford school and attend. It is not fair to the people that do not attend school to not get information when reading is a great way to receive education. Being able to access information for free would lead to people reading more and becoming more educated and putting that knowledge to good use. Most of the authors that write the information that is not free does not even see a single cent of the money that goes to people getting what he/she wrote about so why should the company/journal they send their work to make money off them and the author gets nothing, if they get nothing neither should the company/journal publishing the work. Wikis are a good model of free information and others should follow their examples. Having free information would lead to smarter and more educated people. I understand if some information is not free but most information should be just like education is free to an extent, which is how information should be too. Education is what gives a person power if you are the smartest person everyone will follow but if information is free then everyone will have their own thoughts and opinions. Then if everyone has access to be the smartest there will no leaders but that is not true someone will always know more on a subject than another but that is life and if everyone has access to information then new and better things can be done and create new and better things. Free information is the key to a better and brighter future and information should be shared and not just for the rich.
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