The “digital divide” is not a problem in need of rectifying

Walter Block

Journal of Business Ethics, 2004, vol. 53, issue 4, 393-406

Abstract: An oft heard complaint is that there is a digital divide: that some racial, ethnic and gender groupings have more than their fair share of access to computers than others. Commentators who articulate this perspective offer as solutions to this problem the subsidization of such technology for those who are supposedly underprivileged in it. The present paper denies that there is any such problem in need of rectification. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004

Keywords: coercion; computers; digital divide; egalitarianism; Internet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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