I agree with Vint here. Basic human rights are access to food, clothing and shelter. I think we are still struggling in the world with that. With your logic one would expect the radio and TV to be a basic human right but they are not, they are and will remain powerful medium which be enablers of something else and the Internet would fit there. Zaid On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip
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?
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