Communications is a Fundamental Human Right.
Supporting people's right to communicate is the responsibility of all civil society. In December of 1948, the United Nations passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . As the basis for much of today's international law, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also addresses individuals' right to communicate in Article 19:
- "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Universal access to broadband connectivity supports this fundamental human right.
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just curious.
Those who propose the inanity are least likely to favor the respective cost increase. Higher costs are for other people.
Speaking is a right. Expressing your views through any means you have earned is a right. Having a cable company come into your home and install internet is NOT a right. If that man needs to get paid for his job (which he does) then the company needs to make money to pay him. duh.
Also, computers and access cards are expensive products which need to be paid for by someone. The consumer.
If you want free internet join a library.
"Universal access" is not the same as giving it away for free.
I don't see you quoting the UN in order to require newspapers to give subscriptions away for free, or worse yet, open their news presses to all comers?
No one argues for universal ownership of the press, why should ownership of the Internet (and the right to charge for its use) be any different?
Certainly, one has the right to communication, however, that right does to not include the right to the tools of communication beyond those one is born with, those one can produce on one's own or can purchase with the product of one's labors.
The can be no such "right to a free internet". There can be no "right to the product of another" unearned. Nevertheless, if the individuals in one's culture decide, as a whole, that a free internet is to be a privilege provided by combined resources, one ought to rejoice with due and unwavering respect to those who bear the cost of one's privilege.
One does not have a right to another's labor .