We fair humans of Earth believe Internet access to be a fundamental human right

Seems to me there are two separate questions:

1. Should everyone have the right to free broadband internet.
2. Should everyone have the right to uncensored (in a sense free) internet (freedom of expression without governments subpoenaing Google for your information because you are a political dissident).

I think most would argue no to 1, but I think 2 should effectively become a basic human right. If a country were formulating a constitution today, it should be part of their Bill of Rights I believe since it is so fundamental to how we interact and communicate in today's world.

This is ridiculous. Internet access is a service that is provided by people. No one has a right to the services of others unless they are willing to adopt involuntary servitude of some kind.
Here in the U.S. before the civil war resolved things, southern plantation owners thought they had a right to cotton care.

It's astounding how many people have such a skewed concept of the definition of a right. A right to the internet! A right to my wages (regardless of labor/productivity)! A right to health care! A right to a job! A right to not have to work!

I guess people do have a right to demand such things are rights. Can somebody quickly declare it to be a right for such things to be sustainable too?

Its the same rights as posting a letter; before the invention of the penny black stamp you would be charged by distance and number of pages making the cost out of reach of rural or working class folk. The universal penny black and the guarantee to deliver anywhere in the country, regardless of economic cost, meant that people in rural areas are not financially discriminated against because they do not live in the city to comunicate.

The same goes for the internet, in the UK a bill just been passed that garuntees a minimum 2meg download speed for everyone no matter how far out in the sticks you live for the same cost as in the city

I see it as a "right" in the sense that no one should willfully deprive another human being of it, rather than "it must be provided".

As for no one being deprived of it, I really am surprised at that comment. Warrenjoseph76 points out how ridiculously untrue that is.

I agree that saying it must be provided does seem a bit ridiculous, but I do think that uncensored access to the world's largest method of free speech is a fundamental right.

free speech for all is a now considered a human right thats developed over the centuries, but what use is talking if no can hear you. You had to travel speak to people in person to spread your ideas, then letters, to telegrams, followed by phones and now the internet. All of them communication tools faster than before, all of them once a preserve for the rich and now considered so important for talking, it is now a right, that should be available everywhere. Look at phones once only the rich could afford them, now there on street corners. Remember how much the internet use to cost? Now its a freebie handed out by phone companies if you get line rental.

The internet is going in the same direction as every other communication tool in history, just a hell of a lot faster.

I was thinking more along the lines of how somebody who commits computer crimes can be told they're not allowed to use computers (or the Internet, or whatever) for X years, or forever. I don't know that anybody answering the survey meant that they shouldn't have to *pay* for Internet, but rather that Internet access is a necessity and there should be legal protections that keep them from being deprived of it without due process.