[148177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Jan 5 10:23:53 2012
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:22:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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?
Cheers,
-- jr 'yes, I know I'm early...' a
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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