World Wide Web inventor: Internet access is now a human right

Nonsense! I agree with the majority here who feel it is definitely not a right. It is nice to have. It is extremely useful. It is not a right. I live in southern Africa where the vast majority of people do not have internet access and do not feel the slight. Food, water, and shelter are their concerns. Compared to those, the "wonders" of the internet pale by far. In fact, they don't even make the top 100 on the wishlist of people here.

QuaZulu<> Well said.

Your fundamental human existence is neither threatened by the amount of days you have to get another job. Employment-security is a part of the human rights, even if you behave like a donkey at work, employment-security claims that the employer must behave/perform in a certain way before firing you (among other things/rules).

(By "you", I don't mean wagan8r in particular. I'm not trying to piss anybody off.)

The right to communicate is a human right. One is as a human entitled to speak. Using the Internet, we can do much more than speak. And I actually support the idea of making the Internet *a part* of the human rights of communication, as it's basically a fundamental privilege.

In itself, I don't think that Internet-penetration should be a human right. But I strongly support the idea of integrating Internet-penetration as a part of the rights of communication. Even prisoners have the right to speak, you know.

Exactly, I could not word it better myself.

The ability to trade is a human right, the right to freedom is a human right. The internet to us may seem like a privilege but to many in second and third world countries, is out of the question. Please remember the power that is the internet; a resource of knowledge, communication, entertainment, commerce, etc. With it, many problems can be solved. Today it is essential for buisness, government, educational and personal life. It definitely should be a human right for third world countries, without a doubt, so why not here?

Your existence is threatened if you dont have a job.

To sum up the majority's opinion on this, as well as mine, in economic terminology: The internet is a Luxury not a necessity.

Most people in my pooh hole of a country is more worried about putting food on the table than using the Internet.

The world has greater needs than some dumb bottom network full of stolen media and porn.

The world needs to "unplug" from the Internet monster and deal with reality.