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Every UDHR provision scores higher on the editorial channel (what sites say about rights) than on the structural channel (what sites do about rights). Privacy shows the largest gap — editorial +0.19, structural +0.05.
The Human Rights Observatory tracked who speaks and who gets spoken about across 806 Hacker News stories. Workers appear as subjects 10x more than as speakers — a pattern that maps directly onto the economic rights the ICESCR protects.
The Human Rights Observatory evaluated 806 HN stories against 30 UDHR provisions. Freedom of expression dominates coverage. Slavery and asylum remain nearly invisible. The data reveals which rights receive attention — and which do not.