[148193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jan 5 11:53:38 2012
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:29:05 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:52:11 -0500
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:29:05 PST, Leo Bicknell said:
> But let's take a specific (famous) example. Kevin Mitnick. From
> his wikipedia page:
>
> "During his supervised release, which ended on January 21, 2003, he was
> initially forbidden to use any communications technology other than a
> landline telephone."
>
> If Internet access (to use your term) had been a human right than
> his human rights were violated by the government when they banned
> him from using any communications technology. Do we really want to
> suggest that banning him from using the computer is the same level of
> violation as enslaving him, torturing him, or even killing him?
Convicted felons surrender a number of rights: freedom (jail terms), the
right to vote, etc. And nobody seems to consider that concept a "violation"
(though it *is* of course up for debate exactly what rights it's OK to remove
from a felon, and for how long).
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