[governance] NYT opinion by Vint Cerf: Internet Access is not a HR

[Riaz K Tayob]

On negative and positive dimensions of the rights, it is important to 
note that this typically applies to "state action" and the role of 
private providers under HR laws may be somewhat out of the fold...

The issue is that by labeling it a human right even as a positive right 
is the view that it should be "progressively realised"... and on 
progressive realisation there has typically been a dispute between first 
world (negative rights proponents - i.e. in IMF/WBank conditionalities 
etc) and some in the Third World pushing for more development orientated 
international framework so that progressive realisation is enabled (by 
international rules/norms) rather than left to its national self...

riaz
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