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Internet access is 'a fundamental right'

  • 08-03-2010 2:56am
    #1
    Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8548190.stm

    Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. The survey - of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries - found strong support for net access on both sides of the digital divide.
    Countries such as Finland and Estonia have already ruled that access is a human right for their citizens.
    International bodies such as the UN are also pushing for universal net access.

    Do you consider it a right?

    Personally I do, but, way down the pecking order after the rights to food, water, shelter & safety to life etc

    The rights to access to information, free from government interferience is vital.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,339 ✭✭✭me-skywalker


    The rights to the information can also be blocked or exempt; so regardless if the information is vital it is the government still pertains the first right to pass judgement on what information can and should be available to the public domain.... see conspiracy theories thread lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests. The survey - of more than 27,000 adults across 26 countries

    Wut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Do you consider it a right?

    Personally I do, but, way down the pecking order after the rights to food, water, shelter & safety to life etc

    This part has nothing to do with your answer. 99% of people would feel that and it wasn't the question put in the survey.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    Wut.

    Great reporting!! :rolleyes:

    Half the world's population don'e even know what the internet is let alone have access to it!


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    This part has nothing to do with your answer. 99% of people would feel that and it wasn't the question put in the survey.

    True, I was just putting some context on it!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I think, the right to your own home should come first.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    I think, the right to your own home should come first.

    As in shelter or in "owning*"?



    *mortgage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    As in shelter or in "owning*"?



    *mortgage.

    Both, depending on circumstances.

    I'm a communist :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Fundamental right? No.. You can live through life happily without it..

    Says the guy sitting up at 3.20 scrolling through threads!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,373 ✭✭✭Executive Steve


    Well we have a right to "information" enshrined in our constitution since one of the abortion referenda, don't we?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,522 ✭✭✭neilthefunkeone


    Well we have a right to "information" enshrined in our constitution since one of the abortion referenda, don't we?

    But cant you get information from other sources.. Lame and all but you can write letters to agencies/departments for info im sure...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,220 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Nah, it's a luxury. What will be a right next, a phone? Car? Jucuzzis? :eek:

    Basic rights should be exactly that, basic. Food, water, shelter, privacy, freedom, justice and peace. I can't think of any more, but after that it's a luxury.

    Think about it, what we consider to be a right, others see as being a luxury. That can be any one of the rights I listed. Even food and water.

    We have it pretty good when we expect to have broadband (internet) included in our basic human rights.

    Either way, you have to take into account the whole world. Human rights are not reserved to countries or people, but scenarios may make it impossible for a lot of people to recieve these basic rights. Famine, war, natural disasters and so on.

    Should the internet me a basic human right? Lets get the first three right first.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    findamental right for sure, else there would be no 3 mobile broadband.....


    *snigger


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Both, depending on circumstances.

    I'm a communist :)

    Commie bastard. :)

    I'm for equality of opportunity, not outcome.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Commie bastard. :)

    I'm for equality of opportunity, not outcome.

    "You know what capitalism is? Getting f*****."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    I think, the right to your own home should come first.

    You realise in most countries in Europe, people rent for most of their lives?

    It's only Ireland that we have this stupid obsession with owning 'the land', and it's one of the main reasons that the recession is as bad as it is - not everyone needs to own their own plot, it's an Irish thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    You realise in most countries in Europe, people rent for most of their lives?

    It's only Ireland that we have this stupid obsession with owning 'the land', and it's one of the main reasons that the recession is as bad as it is - not everyone needs to own their own plot, it's an Irish thing.

    Yes but renting is generally lot more reasonably priced on the continent than here. At the rates we get charged for rent of course any sensible person here would want to own their own place, just to get away from a situation where they're being ripped off on a monthly basis with nothing to show for it .... to a situation where they are still gettting ripped off on a monthy basis but WITH something to show for it..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    I think it should be a right, your at a disadvantage in many ways by not having the internet and it would cost you more to get many services through traditional means.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    I think it's a privilage, one that should be taken away from anyone who doesn't spell words correctly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    About time somebody made fapping a 'fundamental right.'


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    You realise in most countries in Europe, people rent for most of their lives?

    It's only Ireland that we have this stupid obsession with owning 'the land', and it's one of the main reasons that the recession is as bad as it is - not everyone needs to own their own plot, it's an Irish thing.

    I didn't mean in the Bull McCabe fashion.

    I meant being housed, having a roof over your head.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    2Girls1Cup for all!


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