{"id":98452,"date":"2019-11-13T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/should-free-internet-be-a-basic-human-right-theres-a-strong-case-for-it"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:03:23","slug":"should-free-internet-be-a-basic-human-right-theres-a-strong-case-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/should-free-internet-be-a-basic-human-right-theres-a-strong-case-for-it","title":{"rendered":"Should Free Internet Be a Basic Human Right? There\u2019s a Strong Case For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/should-free-internet-be-a-basic-human-right-theres-a-strong-case-for-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You might take it for granted that you can load up Twitter or browse through Reddit whenever you like, but <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2018\/12\/1027991\">around half<\/a> of the 7.7 billion people living on the planet right now aren\u2019t yet able to get online.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s a big problem, according to one researcher. Merten Reglitz, a philosopher and global ethics lecturer from the University of Birmingham in the UK says internet access should be established as a basic human right that everyone is entitled to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternet access is a unique and non-substitutable way for realising fundamental human rights such as free speech and assembly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/japp.12395\">he writes in a new paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might take it for granted that you can load up Twitter or browse through Reddit whenever you like, but around half of the 7.7 billion people living on the planet right now aren\u2019t yet able to get online. And that\u2019s a big problem, according to one researcher. Merten Reglitz, a philosopher and global ethics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,418,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-internet","category-open-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98452","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}