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Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
From: Franck Martin <fmartin () linkedin com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:11:21 +0000
On 1/5/12 8:07 , "Jay Ashworth" <jra () baylink com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----From: "Zaid Ali" <zaid () zaidali com>On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra () baylink com> wrote:Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9IpThe question here is "is *access to* the Internet a human right, something which the government ought to recognize and protect"? I sort of think it is, myself... and I think that Vint is missing the point: *all* of the things we generally view as human rights are enablers to other things, and we generally dub them *as those things*, by synecdoche... at least in my experience.
The basic human right is free speech, this is how the Internet gets protected, by proxy. But then... I think only the US claims to have free speech as a constitutional right. This is not in the mind of many Europeans...
Current thread:
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?, (continued)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Zaid Ali (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Franck Martin (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Joly MacFie (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Zaid Ali (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Jay Ashworth (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Marshall Eubanks (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Zaid Ali (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Daniel Staal (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Franck Martin (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Barry Shein (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Jay Ashworth (Jan 05)
- RE: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Vadim Antonov (Jan 05)