October 18, 2018

Internet access has become a human right, data inquiry hears

MMA in the media
By Baatile Mohale 84 Comments

18 October 2018, Mail & Guardian, Alex Mitchley

Testifying before the Competition Commission’s data services market inquiry on Wednesday, Media Monitoring Africa’s executive director, William Bird, said that access to the internet should be considered a basic human right. Failure to do so would effectively take the country back to apartheid, he said.

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