SanFran Mayor Considers WiFi Internet a Basic Human Right.

NJCSD ^ | Tuesday, 04 October 2005 | editor

[Bommer]

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared universal access to wireless Internet to be a "fundamental right of all citizens" and stated that access to the Internet "is a civil rights issue as much as anything else."

Wonder why he doesn't feel that way about the computer you need to get wireless internet?

[Rodney King]

SF Mayor Gavin Newsom has declared universal access to wireless Internet to be a "fundamental right of all citizens"

There is a reason why SF is so hot on this idea. With wirless nodes everywhere, the perverts can download gay child porn all they want without it being tracked back to them.

[libertarianPA]

I agree. Wasn't it Thomas Jefferson who, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, stated, "In the pursuit of unlimited pornography and bargain basement prices on consumer electronics, it is the natural right of every human to surf the web unfettered, and free of persecution."

[dfwgator]

That was my first thought too.

[cynicom]

Citizen "rights" started out with the free lunch now look at what we have, free WI FI...

[libertarianPA]

I visited San Francisco once........ once.

[Shqipo]

Laptops for the homeless?

[dsc]

"With wirless nodes everywhere, the perverts can download gay child porn all they want without it being tracked back to them."

There's gotta be a way to beat that.

[Americanwolfsbrother]

If this ban on handguns passes in S.F. and the police do not get to an emergency in time will the victim/victim's family be able to sue Newsome for not protecting them/disarming them?AWB

[N3WBI3]

Wait..

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Its their "right"...

[VRWCmember]

I'd like to tell this idiot where he can stick his Proposition H.

[Rodney King]

If this ban on handguns passes in S.F. and the police do not get to an emergency in time will the victim/victim's family be able to sue Newsome for not protecting them/disarming them?

No, federal courts have ruled more than once that a city has no obligation to protect residents.

[Semper Paratus]

Have him take it up with the UN.

[manwiththehands]

Step away from the woman, put your hands on your head, or I'll shoot you where you stand ... with my .45 WiFi!

[Americanwolf]

TJ was quite the forward thinker back then!! :)

[cowboyway]

So according to San Francisco:

gay marriage -- human right free
sex changes operations -- human right
free internet -- human right
owning a tool of self defense -- a criminal act

According to the Constitution:

gay marriage---not mentioned
free sex change operation---not mentioned
free internet---not mentioned
right to keep and bear arms---The Second Amendment

[.cnI redruM]

It must have been that first draft of it that the dog peed all over.

[Red Badger]

If WiFi is a basic human right, then theu owe me a WiFi laptop in order to participate!..........