Wikipedia warns that the UK's proposed web censorship and age verification requirements would cut off access to Wikipedia in the UK.

Bravo to Wikipedia for refusing to compromise with censorship and tracking. However Ms Crompton-Reid made a grave conceptual error by including Wikipedia in the category of businesses — "players" in a "market".

Wikipedia's virtue, what makes it morally important despite its imperfections, is precisely that it is not a business. It does not operate in a "market", and it has a commitment to a goal beyond its own success.

The cynicism of "players" may resonate with a general vague condemnation of business, which to some extent business in general deserves; but it also tends to silence moral discussion about any business's acts or practices. Even to raise the question of whether a certain business, or a certain line of business, treats people unjustly is more difficult with the "players" metaphor sneering at it.