Internet Now a Human Right

[Die Rote Fahne]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/internet-a-human-right/

According to the United Nations, humans are now given the right of access to the internet.

Awesome!

Thoughts from you tech guys and science folk?

[Leftsolidarity]

Not to shit on this or anything because I think it is cool but the UN doesn't really matter.

[Die Rote Fahne]

Not to shit on this or anything because I think it is cool but the UN doesn't really matter.
I know, I know. So very aware of that.

I just think it's cool that we have something to use to back up net neutrality.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

I know, I know. So very aware of that.

I just think it's cool that we have something to use to back up net neutrality.

How would this back up net neutrality though?

[Die Rote Fahne]

How would this back up net neutrality though?
Not directly, but it gives that push that, because it is seen as a human right, it shouldn't be something that only those who can afford it can access, or that it can be restricted.

[Sperm-Doll Setsuna]

Not directly, but it gives that push that, because it is seen as a human right, it shouldn't be something that only those who can afford it can access, or that it can be restricted.

I'm sure they'll pull something along the lines that abolishing net neutrality is the right thing to do because it allows the providers of content to blah blah "adequately respond to demand" and therefore this human right thing is "actually against net neutrality", and they'll go on and on like that.

I think that as such it will probably be irrelevant when it comes to net neutrality.

[Die Rote Fahne]

I'm sure they'll pull something along the lines that abolishing net neutrality is the right thing to do because it allows the providers of content to blah blah "adequately respond to demand" and therefore this human right thing is "actually against net neutrality", and they'll go on and on like that.

I think that as such it will probably be irrelevant when it comes to net neutrality.
Perhaps, we shall see. I know these things can be turned around, especially to promote the interests of the bourgeoisie. However, their is potential for it to help I think,

[RedRise]

Perhaps I should mention this at my school...

[Dr Mindbender]

its all pretty arbitrary. Access to basics like food, water, shelter, medication, education and employment already are rights which people are still being denied en masse. So for the UN to say this its pretty meaningless until the aforementioned basics are sorted out.

Internet is just another thing to join the back of the queue.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

its all pretty arbitrary. Access to basics like food, water, shelter, medication, education and employment already are rights which people are still being denied en masse. So for the UN to say this its pretty meaningless until the aforementioned basics are sorted out.

Internet is just another thing to join the back of the queue.

However, the Internet is a source of information without equal. Lack of information can kill just as easily as a lack of food, water and decent sanitation. Those things may have a higher priority, but unfettered internet access is not at all far behind them in my estimation.

[PopoSmash!]

A billion people are malnourished when food is a right... This is just insulting. Really, it's just more liberal-bourgeois pandering.