Posted on 04/28/2014 10:16:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Secretary of State John Kerry says people around the world have a fundamental right to the Internet. He is denouncing authoritarian governments that place restrictions on web access and social media.
Speaking from Washington to an online freedom forum in Estonia, Kerry said Monday that open and unrestricted communication helps make governments accountable. He said autocratic rulers therefore see a free, open and inclusive Internet as a threat to their power. …
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Being subject to authoritarianism and abuse is a Universal RIght!...
How can a human accomplish such idiocy? Is it a requirement to get to federal office or does the air in DC make you so stupid. This dipwad says authoritarian governments don’t want people to have internet but his boss, King Hussein I just handed it over to the largest collection of villains and thugs ever assembled. The UN.
I love the internet, but I am not sure it should be consider a natural “right” along with others.
I guess you could lump it into freedom of expression and assembly.
But really..a fundamental right?
Kerry is a Klown.
Yep, just like MTV.
Dishonest John is at it again.
Whoa! Verizon is trampling my Fundamental Rights!
They send me a BILL each month!!!
So when is my fundamental right to a new boat every 5 years going to become an election issue?
Perhaps we should add that to the Bill of Rights. We could pattern the language after the 2nd amendment.
Proposed 28th amendment.
A well regulated Militia Internet, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms Modems, shall not be infringed.
If you want to trip up a leftist, bring up the whole movement with respect to “sexual pleasure” being a “fundamental right”. The sick thing about such a notion is that nobody can refuse sex to anyone because that would be a violation of the “fundamental rights” of the initiator—so then rape is legalized (and they are such crusaders against rape, too).
“(and they are such crusaders against rape, too).”
They are only against rape rape
Unless you’re a conservative website that really ticks off the powers what are.
Then you’re guilty of thought crimes and “hate”, and so you must go.
Indeed, but that is what the progressive klowns do. Liberal klowns are quite sure that if they enact enough laws they can improve on the founders’ notion of natural law.
Liberals remind me of this story.
An old Indian Chief sat in his hut on the reservations, smoking a Ceremonial Pipe and eying two U.S. Government officials sent to interview him. "Chief Two Eagles" asked one official, "You have observed the white man for 90 years. You’ve seen his wars and his technological advances. You’ve seen his progress, and the damage he's done.
The Chief nodded in agreement.
The Official continued, "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?
The Chief stared at the Government Officials for over a minute and then calmly replied, "When white man found this land, Indians were running it."
"No taxes."
"No debt."
"Plenty buffalo."
"Plenty beaver."
"Women did all the work."
"Medicine man free."
"Indian man spent all day hunting and fishing."
"All night having sex."
Then Chief leaned back and smiled, "Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that."
The least the article could have done was give us an exact quotation. To say that one has a fundamental right to something that didn’t exist 50 years ago and relies entirely on advanced technology is crazy talk even for John Kerry.
Can Free Republic please give us a way to block threads with certain words?
Pretty please?
How about the producer of the video falsely accused f causing the Benghazi attack? He was jailed for accessing the internet? How about government plans for shutting down cell phone and internet access during any disturbance?
A true fundamental right is freedom from all looney liberal comments, orders, words, and biases.
From August 5, 2004: DNC Lawyers Work To Muzzle Swift Boat Vets' Ad
HUMAN EVENTS has obtained a copy of a letter which lawyers for the Democratic National Committee and John Kerry have sent to television station managers attempting to suppress the blistering anti-Kerry TV spot created by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and first reported here on HumanEventsOnline.com.The letter claims the ad is "false" and "libelous" and suggests, in not-so-subtle terms, that TV stations should use their "legal authority" to refuse any requests for advertising airtime, stating that "because your station has this freedom [to refuse the ad], and because it is not a 'use' of your facilities by a clearly identified candidate, your station is responsible for the false and libelous charges made by this sponsor" (emphasis added).
-PJ
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