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Spain Codifies the "Right To Broadband"
Reader adeelarshad82 writes to lets us know that Spain has now codified a "Right to Broadband," thus following the lead of Finland. Spain's industry minister announced that citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband Internet access of at least 1 Mb/sec at a regulated price wherever they live. The telecoms operator holding the so-called "universal service" contract would have to guarantee it could offer "reasonably" priced broadband throughout Spain.
Rights don't come from the Man in the Sky. Rights come from being human beings. Like instincts. They are a natural consequence of man's desire to be liberated.
However when you rob your neighbors wallets to buy some poor person a car, or house, or internet, then you've infringed upon your neighbors' freedoms (theft of labor). Nobody has a right to harm another in this fashion.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>People who talk about "rights" are selfish, self-entitled, and most importantly, clueless.
Spoken like a man who knows absolutely nothing about the last 2500 years of philosophy. YOU are the one who is "clueless" and don't seem to realize it. "Right to life" simply means "right not to be killed". It doesn't mean you have the right to rob your neighbors' wallets and buy yourself replacement organs to extend your life eternally. No man has a right to harm another.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Why should Fox be entitled to freedom of the Press?
You are welcome on my lawn.
>>>You could say the exact same thing on *every* tax.
No. A tax that benefits every citizen, such as for a protective police force, is legitimate tax.
Taxes that only benefit ~5$ of the population (i.e. giving them free stuff), are illegitimate.
It's theft of labor from the whole to a few - just as surely as serfdom was theft of labor.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall