{"id":98377,"date":"2019-11-11T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/free-internet-access-should-be-a-basic-human-right-study-says"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T18:02:57","slug":"free-internet-access-should-be-a-basic-human-right-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/free-internet-access-should-be-a-basic-human-right-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Free Internet access should be a basic human right, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/free-internet-access-should-be-a-basic-human-right-study-says3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free internet access must be considered as a human right, as people unable to get online\u2014particularly in developing countries\u2014lack meaningful ways to influence the global players shaping their everyday lives, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/political+engagement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">political engagement<\/a> increasingly takes place online, basic freedoms that many take for granted including free expression, freedom of information and freedom of assembly are undermined if some citizens have access to the internet and others do not.<\/p>\n<p>New research reveals that the internet could be a key way of protecting other basic human rights such as life, liberty, and freedom from torture\u2014a means of enabling billions of people to lead \u2018minimally decent lives\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free internet access must be considered as a human right, as people unable to get online\u2014particularly in developing countries\u2014lack meaningful ways to influence the global players shaping their everyday lives, according to a new study. As political engagement increasingly takes place online, basic freedoms that many take for granted including free expression, freedom of information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}