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Sir Tim Berners-Lee Speaks Out On SOPA

Posted by samzenpus on from the everyone's-a-critic dept.

natecochrane writes "Father of the web Sir Tim Berners-Lee called for Americans to protest SOPA and PIPA, laws he says violate human rights and are unfit for a democratic country. Sir Tim's condemnation came on the day an editorial in Australia's leading broadsheet newspapers pointed out that although the laws ostensibly applied to U.S. interests they could overreach to impact those in other countries."

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  1. It's Still Not a "Right" Per Se... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...but SOPA is still bad.

    Internet access is somewhere between telephone service, and freedom of press. It's not entirely a "human right"

    Additionally access to private networks is not precisely anything that private organizations or individuals should be forced to share. nor should htey be prevented from connecting. ..in the end, answer me this, is flipping a light switch a human right? who's switch is it?