Is Internet access a 'fundamental right'?

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 05/08/2009 - 03:03

The Open Road: "We live in a world that demands entitlements for just about everything. While the framers of the U.S.

Constitution talked about the rights of assembly, speech, and religion, our modern world has crowned new rights. Universal health care is a hot one.

But now the European Commission's Viviane Reding has suggested Internet access as a fundamental human right."


 

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