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Petition Calls For Making Net Access Inalienable Right
CelticWhisper writes "Targeted at stopping SOPA, a petition has been started at the White House's 'We The People' page calling for a Constitutional amendment that would render internet access an inalienable right. Other countries have already adopted such classification for internet access. An excerpt from petition text reads: 'The United States Government is actively attempting to pass legislation to censor Internet. There are numerous campaigns against this Act, but we need to do more than just prevent SOPA from passing. Otherwise, future Acts of similar nature will oppress our rights.' Is calling for a Constitutional amendment to guarantee this too extreme, or is the Internet sufficiently entrenched in modern life that access to it should be guaranteed by the Constitution?"
But...Everyone has a right to download porn!
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
how do you tell your robot helicopter which truck to land on if you don't have access to the internet?
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
You can't have an inalienable right to someone else's property.
Luckily its about inalienable ACCESS to someone elses property.
We're not talking about you having a right to own my suburban house without a valid sales contract or whatver. We're talking about you having the right to access my house, without the local PD arresting you enroute because they don't like black people in my lilly white city and DWB (driving while black) is a local municipal offense.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
already covered by:
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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And if it's "they ignore that" then why do they think some new amendment wouldn't be ignored in exactly the same way?
Like... ahem... slashdotting?