Note this U.N. report: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/17session/A.HRC.17.27_en.pdf
It was mentioned several times during the recent RightsCon in Rio, which had a few very interesting panels on the intersection of human rights and Internet. When the report came out, many articles commented that "The U.N. declared Internet access a human right". But what the report actually says is that the Internet can be a key enabler for some human rights, i.e. privacy (UDHR article 12) and freedom of expression (UDHR article 19), not that there is a right to Internet access itself. So I believe a human rights scholar would say similar things about the FreedomBox or related technologies, or about the ability to run your own web server. Note that even if something is considered a human right, it doesn't mean that it is absolute. Some (not all) human rights can be restricted under certain conditions (e.g. national security, or when other people's rights are being violated) The fact that some states have implemented a right to (broadband) Internet is of course to be applauded. :) I have a paper<http://projectdanube.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Human-Rights-in-the-Information-Society.pdf>about human rights and Internet, in case someone is interested.. Markus -- Project Danube: http://projectdanube.org Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium: http://personaldataecosystem.org/ On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]>wrote: > Given that broadband access has been started to be suggested as a basic > human right, such as access to clean drinking water > > I wonder if privacy enhanced solutions such as freedom box should be also > pitched as a basic human right? > > If so, what should be a first goal? > > Perhaps the ability for everyone to easily run a web server, on their own > hardware, and keep the logs? > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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