Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison

Re:Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison by SwellJoe on Sunday April 05, 2015 @11:48PM (#9326363)

The Constitution defines what the founding fathers of the US considered human rights. I suppose statutory rights could fall under the category of "not human rights". And, I guess some folks consider some statutory rights to be directly contradictory to human rights (water shutoffs in Detroit or foreclosures of homes during the banking crisis, for example).

What kind of right do you believe internet use would fall under?

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Re:Chelsea Manning is tweeting from prison by clamprecht on Sunday April 05, 2015 @11:56PM (#9326394)

In Reno vs. ACLU (1997), the US Supreme Court ruled that the Internet deserved free speech protection under the First Amendment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reno_v._American_Civil_Libertie...

Some have argued that prohibiting Internet access to an otherwise free person (not a prisoner) is cruel and unusual punishment. In 1992 that was laughable. In 2015, it's much less laughable.

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