The technology company noted that nearly two - third of the world's
citizens have no access to the Internet at all.
Not exact matches
As many journalists and commentators
have argued, agreements like the TPP
have dubious benefits for
citizens of the countries involved.ISDS provisions
have been criticised by U.S. Constitutional lawyer Lori Wallach for «empowering corporations
to sue governments — outside their domestic court systems — over any action the corporations believe undermines their expected future profits or rights under the pact by reporting breaches, removing online content and even denying
access to Internet users».
Just as the telephone companies can not now referee your phone conversations, the owners of broadband
Internet lines should not be allowed
to interfere with what online content
citizens have access to.
Very few North Koreans
have access to the
Internet; in fact, due
to the country's isolation and censorship, many of its
citizens do not even know it exists.
For three years, my colleagues and I
have worked very hard
to develop our New York Marcellus Shale
Internet map server
to allow
citizens concerned about gas and oil extraction
to access a great deal of highly useful data.
China is well - known for its «Great Firewall of China» that since 2003
has prevented its
citizens from
accessing what it deems
to be undesirable sites on the
Internet.
That's because, effective today, Finland
has become the first nation
to guarantee all
citizens a legal right
to broadband
Internet access.
Citizens who don't
have access to Internet or telephones are urged
to use text messaging or social media avenues, such as Twitter or Facebook.
Because North Korea
has limited its technology
access, this
has raised concerns from Schmidt who finds North Korea's decision
to prevent its
citizens from connecting with the rest of the world using the
Internet to be a very bad move.