[MtnCat]

Earlier this year, the UN announced that Internet access was a basic human right. And Grandma put the news on SB:
www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=173835

Now, it's broadband access to the Internet that's a basic human right:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2011/11/15/the-united-nations-says-broadband-is-basic-human-right/

[Is it just my paranoid self that's seeing a connection to 'direct democracy' in this?]

 

[FarmerJohn]

we have pub librarys free for all to use


so whats the issue? if they dont use it its no ones falt but there own

 

[DBR]

Yeah, see, but if someone breaks in your house and threatens you with a weapon because they want to steal your laptop, then you have no human right to own a weapon or to defend yourself...yeah...I understand the U.N.

 

[MtnCat]

That works here in the U.S., and probably for most of the developed world, but (and I could be very wrong), I think the UN folks would like the developed countries to provide free broadband internet access to the remotest human outpost on the planet.

Edit: DBR, perhaps you misunderstand me: I do not like the United Nations AT ALL. I'd like to boot it right out of the country. That isn't going to happen, though. Just like the U.S. isn't going to withdraw from the U.N. But I don't have to like it. Not one smidgen.

 

[wyldflwr]

Riiiiight, then lets see those members of the UN pay for broadband internet for everyone out of their own pocket not out of ours, god knows I'm tired of paying the bill myself.

 

[357revolverfan]

To maintain that internet access, broadband or otherwise, is a basic human right is absolutely ludicrous, period. This is another example of the uselessness (at best) and manifest, malignant, insanity of the United Nations.

 

[eternalcalm]

Broadband for every person on earth simply is not sustainable in the long run... Maybe they're going to add up all kinds of completely unsustainable 'rights' so they have a mandate to reduce the human population to the level at which they can be sustainably supplied. They'll just say that life without broadband, a bachelors degree for EVERYONE, a life where you have to start working before 27 or where teenagers work, isn't worth living.

 

[PanicFire]

I think it's a basic human right to have an AR-15 with 10,000 rounds.

Waiting for my AR-15.

 

[en-ki]

I don't have broadband. I feel so oppressed. I think that those of us with slow, dial up connections should be considered an oppressed minority. How about some of that affirmative action.