On 1/5/12 8:07 , "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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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...