RSSInternet Access A Human Right … At Least According To The French
J.J. Jackson | June 14, 2009
We all know how much much of the world cares about what the French think right? It used to be that if the French said something stupid in support of the further decay of their socialist “utopia” we here in America just ignored it. However, with the country’s marked slant leftward as of late, and knowing that some of our Supreme Court justices and many liberals think that foreign law is what we should be following and our Constitution be damned, it is important to note that France’s highest court has now ruled that basic internet access is now, after much of our existence without it, a fundamental human right.
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.
Yes, it is now life, liberty, and the pursuit of the internet that are basic human rights … at least in France.
The entire case was based on cracking down on people that steal the intellectual property of others. The court went further than that though and basically proclaimed that having access to the internet was a right for the people of France. This of course underlines the difference between dysfunctional socialist states and functional libertarian ones. We used to have the latter her in America, but not any more.
In dysfunctional socialist states everything you want is a right and it must be provided to you by the state without regulation. In functional libertarian states you have the right to certain inalienable things only and everything else you have to acquire by pleasing your fellow man.
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