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Article 14 of the proposal
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Article 14 of the proposal is already protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights (articles 39 and 40 CFR) and the ECHR and is a general principle of European law.
From our point of view, free access to Internet cannot be considered as a fundamental right nor as a fundamental need or a “basic service”. The access to Internet, as important as it might be and as much power as it might give to an individual, is not a primary necessity and is a not a question of life or death. Consequently it has no place in a charter of “fundamental rights”. The word “fundamental” should keep its very first meaning and not be used to designate an economic right like the right to free access to Internet. Consequently, the
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