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Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by JunkDNA on Sunday May 10, 2009 @11:37AM (#602195)
Well, at least as far as the USA is concerned, the founders enumerated the list of natural rights endowed on people by their creator. This was not arbitrary, it was based on thousands of years of western philosophy. What the original poster is worried about is the conflation of entitlements with rights.
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Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by mindslight on Sunday May 10, 2009 @12:23PM (#602228)
erm, no. The USA Bill of Rights is a list of restrictions on government which attempts to explicitly protect some natural rights, _NOT_ an enumeration of all natural rights.

As long as the "right to internet access" is a specialization of the right to freely associate (preemptively ruling out three strike laws and whatnot), I don't see how it's impinging upon anyone's right to be left alone.

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Re:EU recognizes Internet access as a fundamental right, on ... by johnnybgoode on Sunday May 10, 2009 @07:43PM (#602683)
What you're describing is really the right to seek internet access, and I agree with your analysis of it. For anyone to proclaim the existence of a "right to internet access" is dangerously vague, however.
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