Internet Access Is Not a Human Right

New York Times ^ | January 4, 2012 | Vinton G. Cerf

[4rcane]

free media is a human right. NYT need to provide their services and labour for free

[deoetdoctrinae]

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[af_vet_rr]

According to Ron Paul if it’s not in the Constitution it’s not allowed. He said that since the Border Patrol is not in the Constitution then it’s not allowed; although, he did join the Air Force which is not mentioned but just the Army and Navy.

Technically he served in the United States Army Air Corps.

Later on in 1941 or 1942 it was renamed the United States Army Air Forces, and then finally it separated into the United States Air Force in 1947.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The Internet helps improve the human condition . . . but access merely for the sake of access is not a right. I think I get what he's saying.. but I see that he's connected to google -- and probably worships Obama.

Two factors IMO that mean that he's in the Cass Sunstein school of libertarian paternalism where the masses are free to choose (libertarianism) but the government specifies the options (paternalism) from among which the masses are permitted to choose. (And lately Sunstein has added nudging to make sure that the masses make the correct choice.)

Thus mere access to the 'Net is not a right because you would therefore have a right to bypass your betters. They want overseers aboard the Internet -- to protect themselves against us masses. I say

make warder boarding the Internet illegal!

Civil rights, after all, are different from human rights because they are conferred upon us by law, not intrinsic to us as human beings.

I swear I recall reading on a U.N. site the definition of "human rights" as those things that governments are obligated to provide -- IOW, no mention of inalienable rights at the U.N. -- and lately, in American politics.

[SkyDancer]

United States Army Air Corps.

I thought he went in the USAF in 1963 when it was the USAF not the USAAF.

[af_vet_rr]

My lame attempt at making a joke about how old he was.

[LtKerst]

The NY Times is a toilet of Mental Turds.

[dr_lew]

This is why the 100 watt light incandescent bulb ban is so disturbing. It’s an eminently practical and desirable device, carried to a ptitch of perfection by a century of use and manufacture, banned on the rhetorical grounds that a more energy efficient substitute for it putatively exists.

I would submit that when we gave up our right to purchase and use 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, we gave up the essence of our rights as Americans and free men.

I have a stash of them, but one burned out today, and to me each such occasion is an adumbration of the end of the world, and I react accordingly. I replaced this one with a 75.

[SkyDancer]

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