Comments for Rights of a Sovereign Nation or Invasion of an Open Internet? at http://thectcnetwork.org , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://thectcnetwork.org Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:24:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://thectcnetwork.org/content/view/450/48/#comment-44 Your headline question, "Rights of a Sovereign Nation or Invasion of an Open Internet?" begs some definition of terms. what is a right and what is a sovereign nation? Individual rights as inalienable and necessary to function as a human being are an attribute of being human. This is the founding, fundamental idea behind the United States. From reading the USA founding documents we can see that a government's legitimacy is derived from its respect for individual rights. From that it follows that sovereignty of is derived from that legitimacy. Freedom of expression, spoken or written, means exactly that. A sovereign country's right to abridge individual rights is a contradiction in terms at two levels - the proper meaning of "right" and the proper meaning of "sovereign". How's that for cutting through the confusion by getting down to essentials? - Jay Conne Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:14:23 +0100