Posted on 10/09/2014 6:02:02 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a potential Democratic White House contender, said in an interview published Wednesday that "Wi-Fi is a human right."
O'Malley, a two-term governor who has fundraised vigorously for Democrats running in midterms races this year, said in an interview with CNN that he can relate to his 20-something daughters.
"I am noticing a generational shift. While baby boomers were led to believe that sometimes our prosperity comes from separating from other[s], people under 40 believe that it will come from being closer to others," he said.
O’Malley said young people are no longer following the path of older generations who specialized in certain skills to attain a comfortable suburban life.
"Young people have flipped that on its head. Younger people are choosing to live in cities. They realize that connections to each other are making us better. That Wi-Fi is a human right. That proximity is important to entrepreneurship, access to capital and talent and diversity," O'Malley said.
"There is an opportunity there for us as a nation to embrace that new perspective," he added.
The United Nations declared Internet access a human right in a 2011 report, saying that the Internet "facilitates the realization of a range of other human rights."
"By vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of opinion and expression, which is an “enabler” of other human rights, the Internet boosts economic, social and political development, and contributes to the progress of humankind as a whole," the report said.
O'Malley polls in single digits behind other potential Democratic White House contenders including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
A CNN/ORC poll released last month found that O'Malley would draw a mere 2 percent of registered Democrats in the early caucus state of Iowa. Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who caucuses with Democrats, got 5 percent support in that poll.
What a dips**t.
It’s been around 10 years since I had any.
With the exception of FreeRepublic and a few other conservative websites, the Internet makes you stupid, and stupidity should not be a human right.
Blue Tooth and Fire Wire are human rights, just as much as X.25....
You idiot. They are technologies, which will be replaced by other technologies.
Should everyone be accorded a WATS line and Festure group services as well?
If it’s grilled over mesquite, sure.
God should have to answer for denying us WiFi until 10 years ago, or so.
I lucked out in Okinawa, 1973-1974, Machinado steakhouse, it was worth a taxi ride down the hill from MCASH Futemna.. Belly popping taste bud gland saturating,, 25 bucks,, I love tepanyaki in general but this was the best dang Kobe beef I ever ate.. Or maybe it was the maitais. Lolol
If I ever hit the Lotto, I’ll send ya some!
New Owe’Malley campaign slogan:
Martin O’Malley: at least he’s not as big a national embarassment as Nancy Pelosi.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Via WiFi.
Hmm, wi-fi is a human right, but not life, self defense, freedom of association or freedom of speech?
Had some great stuff at a “chef’s tasting” at the Carter Green steak house inside the Isle of Capri casino in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Same here.
I grew up with black Angus, hate to think how my pet steer made out. Oh well.
BAcon ain’t too bad either.. And a lot cheaper.
Wi Fi is like water.. It has as hard a time breeching walls and canyons unless ya have a strong signal, ie ‘hot’ transmitter, that floods or essentially flows thru the atmosphere.
Too bad Tesla got hijacked or misinterpreted or his ideas anyway..
Raw brilliance like his comes along once in many months of blue moons..
What’s the FRequency, Nikola?
MD prisoners should love having wifi in their cells.
“The United Nations declared Internet access a human right in a 2011”
Im really having a hard time understanding this concept of “human rights” when every desirable good or service is includes as such.
Democrats and the U.N. really debase the entire concept of rights into a simple greedy list of Good and services they think everyone should have.
Boy would it be nice to have them declare my product or service a “human rights” then everyone would be made legally forced to give up their hard earned money to pay me to provide it for them.
Think of the trillions of hard earned dollars you will be FORCED to part with because some big government politician thinks everyone simply ‘must’ have access to some particular good or service.
I’m sure the WiFi industry is over joyed not to have to worry about competition for your money from other things like say books, TV, face-to-face interaction ect...
Then again that is the most amusing thing about liberals, their so short sighted until someone actually sticks their nose into the results of their big Government fantatices, they never recognize the inevitable consequences of their totalitarian demands upon everyone else’s way of life.
Indeed as has been long noted, they have to create huge lies about other people hording all the money as if its being simply squandered by some evil minority from whom their ‘heroic politicians’ take the money to pay for their edicts. unfortunately we all know the real world that money comes from our pockets either directly from the IRS, or indirectly thou higher prices as businesses collect the IRS’s due for them.
My governor again.
And I want a pony.
It’s a human right, dontcha know...
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