[148212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Franck Martin)
Thu Jan 5 15:12:24 2012
From: Franck Martin <fmartin@linkedin.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:11:21 +0000
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On 1/5/12 8:07 , "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Zaid Ali" <zaid@zaidali.com>
>
>> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip
>> >
>
>The question here is "is *access to* the Internet a human right,
>something=20
>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...
