On 1/5/12 8:07 , "Jay Ashworth" <j...@baylink.com> wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Zaid Ali" <z...@zaidali.com> > >> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <j...@baylink.com> wrote: >> >> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip >> > > >The question here is "is *access to* the Internet a human right, >something >which the government ought to recognize and protect"? I sort of think it >is, >myself... and I think that Vint is missing the point: *all* of the things >we generally view as human rights are enablers to other things, and we >generally dub them *as those things*, by synecdoche... at least in my >experience.
The basic human right is free speech, this is how the Internet gets protected, by proxy. But then... I think only the US claims to have free speech as a constitutional right. This is not in the mind of many Europeans...
