>The idea of a right is that governments must work to secure them for its people. >If so, how do you propose that privilege be fulfilled in rural communities t

>The idea of a right is that governments must work to secure them for its people. >If so, how do you propose that privilege be fulfilled in rural communities that currently don't have internet access? I think a lot of the noise around this issue comes down to not clearly delineating between positive and negative rights: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=positive+vs.+negative+rights https://duckduckgo.com/?q=positive+vs.+negative+rights ...in the American tradition, "internet access as a right" means that that others (government, etc.) can't deprive you of whatever internet access you happen to have. Whereas other traditions interpret "internet access as a right" as something that the community needs to provide to individuals.