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 U.N. Report Deems Internet Access a Basic Human RightPosted on Jun 5, 2011
Months after the start of the uprisings that are roiling the Middle Eastern and Arabic world, the United Nations has recognized the essential role the Internet plays in human aspirations, deeming unhampered Internet availability a basic human right. Unfettered Internet access has been under attack during the protests that make up the Arab Spring, as officials in a number of countries have imposed Internet blackouts to prevent dissidents from communicating with one another. Meanwhile, net neutrality—the concept that Internet use and content must be free of restriction by governments and Internet service providers—remains quietly under threat in the United States. —ARK
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By Stephen Holmes, June 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm Link to this comment
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Absoulutely it is our right. When are we going to get Nationwide Wifi or are the phone giants thinking ‘Never’ because they would rather charge us for it? Probably the latter. ;*(
Report thisBy Lew Ciefer, June 6, 2011 at 10:12 am Link to this comment
@ gerard, June 5 at 6:25 pm:
As if the “right of freedom of speech” is a “leftie” idea. And as if the “lefties” were the only crzies who try to avoid responsibility on every possible occasion. Amo, amas, amat, abyss, abet, abominable.
Relax Gerard. There are no rights of man and there is nothing free about “free speech.” As Carlin said many years ago: “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges.”
And what the hell does so-called free speech rights have to do with this, the latest in a long line of idiotic declarations by one of the biggest jokes ever perpetrated upon humankind?
This “declaration” is standard M.O. for the “Enlightened” bent on establishing their failed religious ideology—communism—on mankind. If internet service is a right for all human beings who is the authority that is prepared to be the guarantor and enforcer of said right should a third party decide to take that right away from the possessors of said right?
U.N. declarations are fetid, like jalapeño bean dip and beer farts, but much more expensive to produce.
If U.N. gasbags are serious about this newly conceived right… let’s see them implement those rights in North Korea—without U.S. aid—and we’ll see PDQ just how united all those nations are.
Report thisBy SarcastiCanuck, June 6, 2011 at 7:12 am Link to this comment
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Man,are these U.N.idiots for real?Whats next,the right to body piercing?...Are there no greater problems in the world for these do nothings to tackle.I want my tax dollars spent on this joke,back.It will help pay for my internet subscription.
Report thisBy gerard, June 5, 2011 at 6:25 pm Link to this comment
As if the “right of freedom of speech” is a “leftie” idea. And as if the “lefties” were the only crzies who try to avoid responsibility on every possible occasion. Amo, amas, amat, abyss, abet, abominable.
Report thisBy rico, suave, June 5, 2011 at 2:46 pm Link to this comment
How could the Founding Fathers have missed that? Of course, nowhere does, or will, the UN spell out the responsibilities of internet users who exercise their new “right”. What a bunch of crap. This demonstrates one of the big intellectual failures of the left- they are excellent at finding and asserting new “rights” and, at the same time, denying and avoiding responsibilities.
Report thisBy Lew Ciefer, June 5, 2011 at 2:24 pm Link to this comment
So does that mean we should all have free internet service or do we have to pay for this so-called right?
Jerry Doyle was right ... “the turds have floated to the top.”
Why do people keep supporting this useless as tits on a boar hog organization? Yet another Leftist dream proves to be an utter failure.
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