[governance] Access to the Internet and Human Rights

[Daniel Kalchev]

Paul,

On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Paul Lehto wrote:

> If access to the internet is NOT a human right, then governments can arbitrarily block access to the internet without due process of law of any kind.
> 
> I am confused as to why anyone on this list or elsewhere would deny that "access to" the internet is a human right OTHER THAN the acknowledged confusion of when "access to" is interpreted as meaning "government-paid access to."  
> 
> But the key language in this debate in recent days has not, to the best of my memory, ever raised the question of whether :"government-paid access to the internet is a human right."

Who is the "government" in your scenario, and "whose" money does it spend?

Daniel
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