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> What makes access to high-speed internet a privilege as opposed to a right? What makes it a privilege is that it's a consumer service, like cable television
by tharne 7y ago
> What makes access to high-speed internet a privilege as opposed to a right?
What makes it a privilege is that it's a consumer service, like cable television or satellite radio. Sure it's good to have, but hardly on the same page as "human rights".
There seems to be a trivializing of human rights by the left, who have a tendency to throw everything under the sun in as a human right so they can justify expanding the government to provide said right.
Access to the court system and a fair trial? Human Right
Freedom from slavery? Human Right
Broadband internet to watch streaming videos? Not a Human Right.
- uoaei 7y agoYour argument starts with a false premise, which is that because the providers code the delivery of high-speed internet as a "consumer service" that it is thus not a right. By your same logic, if I began charging people to have access to the court system and a fair trial (which is arguably the case in the US today anyway) and treat the judicial system as a "consumer service," then it would cease to be a right. That is hardly an argument, I'm sorry to say.