{"id":1615,"date":"2010-03-16T07:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T12:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:03:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:03:31","slug":"the-right-to-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/the-right-to-surf.html","title":{"rendered":"The Right to Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.watblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/online_advertising2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Online\" src=\"http:\/\/www.watblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/online_advertising2.jpg\" alt=\"Online\" width=\"176\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/8548190.stm\">79% of adults surveyed<\/a> believe that Internet Access is a fundamental right.\u00a0 This puts it in the category of roads, water, electricity, and other essential services.<\/p>\n<p>This survey covered 27,000 people across 26 countries from Japan, Ghana, and India, to Mexico as well as Europe and North America.\u00a0 No country surveyed answered less than 50%<\/p>\n<p>Minimally, this should call into question why Internet access in this country is not even considered a public utility.\u00a0 Telephone access is, and is regulated as such, but not ISP service or cellular service.<\/p>\n<p>But the larger head scratcher comes when you think about the fact that in the good ole US of A.\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2008\/dec\/26\/opinion\/oe-stein26\">The greatest, best country God has ever given man on the face of the  Earth<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 Why we can&#8217;t even gain consensus that access to medical care is a fundamental right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>79% of adults surveyed believe that Internet Access is a fundamental right.\u00a0 This puts it in the category of roads,<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/03\/the-right-to-surf.html\" title=\"Read The Right to Surf\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekypursuits","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}