[148228] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Thu Jan 5 22:28:08 2012
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 03:24:43 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4F0664FB.4010009@kotovnik.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> There are no such rights. Each positive right is somebody else's obligati=
on.
> Being forced to feed, clothe, and house somebody else is called slavery. =
So is
> providing Internet access, TV, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if this s=
lavery
> is part-time, the principle remains the same -- some people gang up on yo=
u
> and force you to work for their benefit.
This is antisocial nonsense. Governed societies exist because the supporti=
ng output of the group is greater than that of the same number of individua=
ls. That infrastructure of government - the social building blocks that ob=
ligate us to each other - are not slavery, they are freedom from the anarch=
ists, the equal opportunists (those that hold that we all have, inherently,=
have the same opportunity to succeed), and the Darwinists.
By your logic, librarians are slaves, as are all civil servants. Radio is =
another of the greatest examples of a means of speech that is universally a=
ccessible, and yet we would not call broadcasters slaves either. Absolute =
nonsense.
Nathan
