[148181] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu Jan 5 10:37:36 2012
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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 10:36:44 -0500
From: Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks@gmail.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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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 th=
em.
>
> Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. =A0But 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 subsid=
y
> applies to cellular phones now as well.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jr 'yes, I know I'm early...' a
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