EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on par with freedom of expression

Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by nopassrecover on Sunday May 10, 2009 @07:40AM (#602035)

I'm not sure that's necessary. Can you link on a resource that says positive rights always result in the violation of someone's negative rights? I guess the negative right of property would be violated by the tax cost of the internet.

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Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by frig on Sunday May 10, 2009 @10:18AM (#602122)

The positive/negative rights thing is basically the libertarians adopting a simplified and less-nuanced reading of Isaiah Berlin's famous essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty"

http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/twoconcepts.pd...

It's better to go to the originals on things like this then to read what they've become in the political folk mythology on the internets.

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Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by byrneseyeview on Sunday May 10, 2009 @06:56PM (#602638)

The only exception would be a positive right to something previously unowned. For example, you could have a right to own any island you discover, without violating someone else's preexisting claim.

But if you have a right to be fed, it violates someone else's right to the food they own; if you have a right to medical care, nurses and doctors don't own their own time, etc.

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Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by nopassrecover on Wednesday May 13, 2009 @07:36PM (#607904)

This point seems misguided. Your right to medical care doesn't force nurses and doctors to become nurses and doctors - on the contrary it enables their right to a job if that is their chosen career path.

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