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Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tei)
Thu Jan 12 04:34:25 2012
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From: Tei <oscar.vives@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:33:08 +0100
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 5 January 2012 16:22, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> 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 th=
em.
>
> Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. =C2=A0But a=
s 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?
>
You don't need a new right.
The human rights include education and access to be able to
participate in your culture. A human banned from using the internet
would not have access to culture, and will be banned from participate
in it.
Based on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights
5.5
5.7
5.7.*
Practical terms:
The ugly conclusion is that you can put a men in jail, but that don't
include ban such men to access the internet. Say, you put in jail a
cracker. The judge as to remove him from two rights, the right to
freelly walk anywhere, and the right to post in his favorite
forum/mail list.
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=E2=84=B1in del =E2=84=B3ensaje.