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Web inventor says Internet should be ‘human right’
Associated Press ^ | Dec 10, 2014 7:02 PM EST | Sylvia Hui

Posted on 12/10/2014 9:22:18 PM PST by Olog-hai

The computer scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web has called for affordable access to the Internet to be recognized as a human right, as a report showed that billions of people still cannot go online and government surveillance and censorship are on the rise.

Tim Berners-Lee said Thursday the Internet can help tackle inequality—but only if it comes with the rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The Briton, who launched the Web in 1990, made the remarks as he released his World Wide Web Foundation’s latest report tracking the Internet’s global impact. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: humanrights; inequality; internet; timbernerslee
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To: Olog-hai

Seeing as how it was first developed and used as a convenient communication tool on high speed ARPA net comms between universities, likely on government sponsored contracts, etc. it is understandable how he might feel this way.

IOW an erstwhile tool for academic elites that has been overtaken by the common citizen, business, capitalism, enterprise and freedom. They can’t stand it and advocate government control.


21 posted on 12/11/2014 4:58:37 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Olog-hai

A human right, eh? Does that mean that I have to pay for other peoples’ access? Why not just say what he means: take all money from those who earn it and give it to those who lob around waiting for their EBT cards and obamaphones.


22 posted on 12/11/2014 5:15:38 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Olog-hai

I believe a Telescreen is a human right.


23 posted on 12/11/2014 5:17:40 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: Olog-hai
Socialists try very hard to get the public to confuse two terms: "right" versus "entitlement".

A right is something that government is not allowed to interfere with your doing, like the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

An entitlement is something that somebody else (typically the taxpayers) is compelled to pay to provide you with it.

24 posted on 12/11/2014 5:25:10 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Olog-hai

In the US, even the homeless have internet access. Just walk into a library and ask to use one of the PCs.


25 posted on 12/11/2014 5:28:01 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Olog-hai

There are no rights to other people’s services. That’s called slavery, and liberals used to oppose it.


26 posted on 12/11/2014 5:53:01 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: lee martell

Disregard what they have to say I say. :)


27 posted on 12/11/2014 5:55:30 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: Olog-hai

I stand corrected. Thank you.


28 posted on 12/11/2014 5:56:59 AM PST by ExGeeEye (The enemy's gate is down...and to the left.)
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To: Olog-hai

What do we mean by a “human right”? That everyone is entitled to have someone else provide access to the internet, without any cost to the person? Who, then, bears the cost, because there is a cost associated with internet access?

There can be no right which requires anyone else to act, work or pay for what is claimed as a right.


29 posted on 12/11/2014 5:57:41 AM PST by NCLaw441
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To: Olog-hai

It is a human right, if the humans in question are willing to pay for it and to dispose of governments that would restrict it.


30 posted on 12/11/2014 7:57:00 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Olog-hai

A “right” cannot be something someone else must provide. That is slavery.

Typical liberal idiot that doesn’t know what a “right” is.


31 posted on 12/11/2014 8:45:49 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: PieterCasparzen

Nah. Barry is from Hawaii, and that’s where the idea for Hula Hoops came from anyway , so he can’t call it racist.


32 posted on 12/11/2014 7:55:12 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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