Is the Internet a human right?

[Commentary] Using “Internet access – and thus net neutrality – is a human right” rhetoric has led to some counterproductive policy recommendations. This is true for zero rating, a business practice that would help more people get online, but that net neutrality activists define as non-neutral access, and therefore an abnegation of human rights.

[Layton studies Internet economics at the Center for Communication, Media, and Information Technologies (CMI) at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Denmark.]