@alweyman
A manifesto by definition is a public declaration of policy and aims towards a specific subject. Online freedom of information is a big issue that goes unnoticed I believe. Every time you go online to a website for homework, or anything really, you’re accessing a lot of free information.
I, like many other people I know, love using Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a freebased informative website designed to help people learn about particular subjects. It is a peer edited site, meaning that anybody can go on and change the information that is presented. While this is great, it also has side effects, such as false information and plagiarism. With the vast amount of information on the web, it is more than likely that you will come across false data without knowing it. The obvious choice would be to go to an official site, which is known for having true data. The catch to this, is that these sites are owned by someone, which means that there is a form of money being spent on it. If someone has good information, they’re going to want to put a price on it. Now as a user, I know personally that I would rather look up a free version of something than spend money to find out the same info. This puts competition on the sponsored sites who slowly lose customers. We are now so far into this hole that the line between true and false information has become minuscule. If it were possible, I would limit the internet to only truth and cast away the others.