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A Human Right to Internet Access: A Gewirthian Approach.

The paper aims at exploring if we have sound philosophical reason to embrace a human right to Internet access. While attempts to make Internet access a candidate for the standing of human right have become popular in both the political and legal arenas, we still lack serious philosophical reflection...

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Published in:Frontiers of Philosophy in China Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 652 - 671
Main Author: WANG Xiaowei
Format: Article
Published: Higher Education Press Limited Company Dec2016
Subjects:
Internet access
Human rights
Democracy
Ethics > Social aspects
Philosophical analysis
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      ab: The paper aims at exploring if we have sound philosophical reason to embrace a human right to Internet access. While attempts to make Internet access a candidate for the standing of human right have become popular in both the political and legal arenas, we still lack serious philosophical reflection on this issue. The paper first evaluates the arguments made by various authors, and then moves to provide its own conclusions. Its logic is that if (i) Internet access is crucial for enabling democracy, and (ii) democracy is a basic human right, then we may have at least prima facie reason to see such a technology as a derived human right whose normativity supervenes on the right to democracy.
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