Internet is not essential
Yes, internet is not
as essential as the right to free basic food, free water, free housing, free electricity, free healthcare, free education etc but it is still essential and the Indian Supreme Court
has agreed on this in 2020 :
The Supreme Court has declared access to internet a fundamental right.
A government cannot deprive the citizens of fundamental rights except under certain conditions explicitly mentioned in the Constitution. The ruling came on hearing of a plea in connection with Internet blockade in Jammu and Kashmir since August 5 -- in the view of revoking of Article 370 in the Union Territory.
Indian constitution makes the right to freedom of speech and expression a fundamental right for all citizens. It has been listed in Article 19 (1)(a) of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has on many occasions expanded the scope of the right to freedom of speech and expression.
The latest expansion makes the constitutional provision keep pace with innovation of technology. Internet is the primary source of information to millions of Indian citizens. A non-citizen can avail the same benefits but cannot claim it as her fundamental right.
The Supreme Court ruling is also in sync with the United Nations recommendation that every country should make access to Internet a fundamental right. In India,
Kerala had become the first state in 2017 to declare access to Internet "a basic human right".
for the amount you spend here on Internet bills to be here on defence pk, you could sponsor free meals or some education books to poor children in India..
Regardless of my internet bill ( which is 500+ for about 80+ days ) I expect the government to provide to myself the right to food as well as to other hungry people.
Modi was happily eating his three meals during last year's lockdown when a reverse-migrating laborer woman died of hunger at a railway station in Bihar. She died because she had no money to buy food. Yes,
buy food. Around the same time another Indian had to resort to eat dog kill on a highway because he probably had no money that afternoon to
buy food. They had to struggle to generate an artificial, human-created construct like money to obtain something that grows naturally ( food crop ). There are millions like them in India. Should I be buying food for all of them ? In your language "Sponsor free meals" ? What does the government tax people for then ? For building temples, PM palaces, purchasing imitations of the American Air Force Ones, building tallest-statues-in-the-world of irrelevant people etc ? There are 35+ million stray dogs in India, as of a few years ago. None of them goes hungry but millions of humans do in this country. Why ? Who is the fool who feeds those dogs while humans around him go hungry ? Why does the government allow this injustice ?
is it anywhere written that only government should do the work..
Firstly, I shouldn't be giving examples but in almost all Socialist countries that list of basic needs of humans I gave earlier, they were free.
Secondly, if such a thing is not written anywhere it should be written because it is a natural, rational and logical idea.
You just have to stop talking in this sneering, anti-intellect, Bhakt-type way.
The Soviet Union seemed formidable in the mid-1980s, so why did it collapse in just a few years? Due to the weak economy and internal ethnic tensions? Yes, and no.
www.rbth.com
1. I don't give much credibility to this website. I have read articles on it before and the articles it published about India seemed to favor the right-tilting Establishment here. Secondly, on the homepage today the articles about the USSR are not quite in its favor. Thirdly, your article quotes a Soviet sociologist who defected to USA in the 1970s and had this to say ( note the underlined ) :
“…In the last decades [of the USSR’s existence] the rates of economic growth steadily decreased, the quality of goods deteriorated, and technological progress slowed...However, all these shortcomings had a rather chronic nature, and weren’t of fatal importance –
an ill person, as well as an ill society, can live for a long time…”
Can such a person be taken for legitimacy ?
2. From the article :
There is a popular conspiracy theory in Russia that Gorbachev deliberately sought to destroy socialism and the Soviet Union. However, it’s not taken seriously because there is no indication whatsoever that he truly wanted to undermine his own rule.
The website dismissing this notion as "conspiracy theory" does not cancel out the existing notion about this topic. Also note that the sociologist mentioned earlier supported Gorbachev if you read the article linked in point# 1.
We need to re-prioritize our budget to give higher subsidy to primary education and basic healthcare, cut down subsidies on fertilizers and pesticides. We should encourage organic farming which will reduce the need for fertilizers and pesticides which degrade soil quality in the long run.
1. Fertilizers will be needed in any case but pesticides can be eliminated if agriculture for staple crops and most vegetables is done through Vertical Farming. Please again read
this post of mine that I made to you,
2. Yes we need to prioritize our budget but the desired result being complete nationalization of the entire education system, the entire healthcare system and the basic-foods production system ( the non-basic items being mango, coconut, cashew etc ).
What is the issue with private land ownership?
To take India as example, there are 45+ million court cases pending in the country at various levels of the courts system. It is said that a few tens of thousands of judges are required to settle these cases. Many of these pending cases will be land disputes, many done within families, some going on for decades, some of them involving violence. Is all this necessary ? Can all this disharmony not be avoided ? Now if we were to remove land / estate from private control and make it a Commons maintained by a committee on behalf of the people, like in a Communist system, there will be minimal chance of a land dispute arising. A great simplification.
