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Dry Bones Level: 55 Posts: 554/646 EXP: 1284893 Next: 29296 Since: 07-28-07 Last post: 4337 days Last view: 4320 days |
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html How do you all feel? This strikes me fuzzy, as public libraries are degrading in quality and utility, the Internet has become a more reliable and more accessible route of accessing the sum of human knowledge. I am uncomfortable with anything that would limit access to the Internet in its fullest form, and I would hope most people here would agree. But is Internet access a human right? Or is it just a route? ____________________ Robocop and 이명박 voted for me. |
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Cape Luigi Level: 131 Posts: 4719/4792 EXP: 26244316 Next: 180304 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 3741 days Last view: 3653 days |
Considering the internet is effectively "the" route to information/everything now - hell, it's a key technology that's binding the entire world together - it kind of has to be. ____________________ |
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Sledge Brother Compromised account. Level: 86 Posts: 1693/1815 EXP: 6129100 Next: 13007 Since: 02-19-07 From: Oregon Last post: 1820 days Last view: 1819 days |
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The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 3854/4196 EXP: 21544625 Next: 291976 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 478 days Last view: 91 days |
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Red Cheep-cheep Level: 33 Posts: 188/207 EXP: 223525 Next: 5654 Since: 11-30-08 From: Tokyo Last post: 3587 days Last view: 2485 days |
Posted by NightKev Half a century ago, information was primarily found in books--and even though "access to literature" has never been something as far-reaching as a "human right," I hardly think that that has stopped people, for centuries, from learning by the written word. In the same sense, Internet access need not be elevated to the status of a "human right," which in all reason should be something fundamental and essential instead of based on a transient technology that may very well be defunct in several centuries. The argument advanced in the New York Times article is cogent and sensible, and I find myself entirely in agreement. |
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Cape Luigi Level: 131 Posts: 4720/4792 EXP: 26244316 Next: 180304 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 3741 days Last view: 3653 days |
The internet is not going to go away. It may migrate technologies (as it has already done before, both in terms of hardware and software), but the underlying concept, that of a world (or, perhaps eventually, even more) having easy and (more or less) free access to information without regard to location (well, eventually... we're not "quite" there yet), is here to stay.
Which is to say, the "Internet", as it exists as a concept, should be a human right; the technology is irrelevant. ____________________ |
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The Guardian Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Level: 124 Posts: 3862/4196 EXP: 21544625 Next: 291976 Since: 02-19-07 From: Ithaca, NY, US Last post: 478 days Last view: 91 days |
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Cape Luigi Level: 131 Posts: 4721/4792 EXP: 26244316 Next: 180304 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 3741 days Last view: 3653 days |
True, true. Then again, plenty of businesses also rely on it (Google, anyone?), so perhaps the corporate morons will cancel each other out.
Alternately, we can just assassinate the entire management/whatever staff of the RIAA/MPAA! ... If only... ____________________ |
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