Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

[Franck Martin <fmartin () linkedin com>]

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/wwL9Ip
>
> The 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...