Thursday, June 11, 2009

Geek News: Top French Court Declares that Internet Access is a Basic Human Right

Oh, here we go.

I'm telling you, pretty soon everything (from health care to organic tofu-burgers) will be a basic human right except self-determination and individual liberties. Oops, did I say that out loud?

Anyway, blurb from the news:

France's highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.

The Constitutional Council declared access to the internet to be a basic human right, directly opposing the key points of Mr Sarkozy's law, passed in April, which created the first internet police agency in the democratic world.

The strongly-worded decision means that Mr Sarkozy's scheme has backfired and inadvertently boosted those who defend the free-for-all culture of the web.

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