http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...ight-united-nations-report_n_872836.htmlInternet access is a human right, and ensuring universal access to the Web "should be a priority for all states," according to a new United Nations report.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the report -- which comes on the heels of a communications blackout in Syria last week -- was written by Frank La Rue, a special rapporteur to the U.N. who was quick to acknowledge the importance of Internet access as demonstrated by the recent "Arab Spring" uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries. Though the Internet has been in existence since the 1960s, La Rue notes it is its "incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life" which makes an unprecedented force and thus worthy of protection.