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Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
From: Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:36:44 -0500
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip
With all due respect to Vint, I think that it isn't now, but it will be. Regards Marshall
But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our governments make Internet access the most practical/only practical way to interact with them. Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. But as a society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a telephone, and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that sort of subsidy applies to cellular phones now as well. Thoughts? Cheers, -- jr 'yes, I know I'm early...' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274
Current thread:
- 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? Dave CROCKER (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Leo Bicknell (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Jay Ashworth (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Leo Bicknell (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Dave Israel (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Leo Bicknell (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Jon Schipp (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 05)
- RE: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Nathan Eisenberg (Jan 05)
- Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right? Kevin Stange (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)