[kictanet] Internet Access Is Not a Human Right By VINTON G. CERF

[ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk]

Internet is not and cannot be the ultimate technology?So will it cease to be a human right when a better technology emerges from research labs?

John Kariuki
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Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:16:39 
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Internet Access Is Not a Human Right By VINTON G.
	CERF

Hi Victor,

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Victor Kapiyo <vkapiyo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would agree with Grace and disagree with Cerf to some extent.
>
> I think the internet has become an essential component of the human
> condition, and perhaps that would explain the reasoning of the UN in
> declaring access to the internet a human right.


I don't believe that the UN has actually declared this a human right.
Various Member States have passed laws declaring this, but the General
Assembly of the UN has not (yet) to my knowledge actually enshrined
Internet access as s human right.


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McTim
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