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Internet access “not a necessity or human right,” says FCC Republican
- Fjolsvith 11y agoBoy does this guy have his head in the sand. I live in rural Kansas and we have stores, banks and post-offices closing right and left here. I have to drive over an hour to get to a Wal-Mart store. I have a shed-building business and I order windows online. I purchase anything from books to RAM to clothing from Amazon. Luckily, the disaster relief bill for Hurricane Katrina had a grant for our local telephone company to install FTTP (fiber-optic to the premises) and I have 50mbps in the middle of nowhere. I liken not having internet to the times I have spent in prison.
- tosseraccount 11y agoWhat is your threshold for "basic human right" ?
- krapp 11y agoThat doesn't make it a human right, though. A ubiquitous necessity for modern life, perhaps, but not necessary for life or society, as those of use who were alive before the web can attest. A convenience, certainly. But no more a human right than television is a right, or phones, or cars.
- zeeed 11y agoIs it just my impression or does anyone else think that most statements from US republicans that make it into international news are just a tad bit further from reality as one might reasonably expect in 2015?