Berners-Lee: Web Access Is a 'Human Right'

jbrodkin writes "Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that access to the Web should now be considered a basic right. In a speech at an MIT symposium, Berners-Lee compared access to the Web with access to water. 'Access to the Web is now a human right,' he said. 'It's possible to live without the Web. It's not possible to live without water. But if you've got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.'"

Comments

Re:Lets Stop Expanding This Rights Nonsense

[Anonymous Coward]

Then you have no sense of ethic, because any rational human being would realize that such a system is unsustainable. There NEEDS to be a significant input of work for this output of free services.

Congratulations on being a terrible human being! It`s nice to know the "Fuck you ,got mine" attitude is still prevalent today.

Re:Go Tim

[clang_jangle]

If we want to own the lines, we need to form a coop, get ourselves access rights, buy the fibre, and build our own network. Interconnect all of our local networks, and help pay for it buy charging the businesses the rights to connect to us.

No, we rightfully do own the infrastructure. What we need is to make good on the promise of representative democracy, so the rights of the people can be recognized. We have to fix the system's flaws that allow corporate interests to be the primary benefactors of our elected officials.