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The Right Not to Use the Internet Concept, Contexts, Consequences

276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This pioneering collection addresses the prospective fundamental/human right not to use the Internet and the challenges that the non- use of the Internet poses for democracy. As the Internet has increasingly ceased to be a mere option and rather turned into a de facto obligation for anyone who exercises their rights or fulfils duties, these developments bring about profound ramifications for... Read more

Introduction

Dariusz Kloza, Elżbieta Kużelewska, Eva Lievens and Valerie Verdoodt

Part 1: The concept and its consequences

1. Ethical meditations for a human right to an analogue life

Georgios Terzis

2. An attempt to conceptualise the right to access the Internet and its impact on the right not to use it

Paolo Passaglia

3. Framing the right not to use the Internet

Mart Susi

4. Human rights and the digital divide: Recent developments in the case law of the Belgian Council of State

Pauline Lagasse and Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck

5. Is there a right to be offline "for no reason" in France?

Julien Rossi

6. The right not to use the Internet: Toward a negative digital freedom in Polish law

Michał Ożóg and Radosław Puchta

7. Non-use of the Internet as human rights enabler? The curious cases of the right to privacy and the right to health

Władysław Jóźwicki and Łukasz Szoszkiewicz

8. Digital disconnection as a plight or right? A manifesto to re-imagine digital disconnection as a reasonable accommodation 

Mariek M. P. Vanden Abeele, Marijn Martens, Sarah Anrijs, Sara Van Bruyssel and David de Segovia Vicente

Part 2: Contexts

9. Right not to use the Internet: Lessons to be learned from the right not to be subject to automated decisions

Leonor Moral Soriano

10. The meaning of the limitation of the use of the Internet for criminal punishment from the perspective of extended mind thesis

Kamil Mamak

11. Digitalisation of public services in Belgium: Enshrining the right not to use the Internet in the Constitution

Elise Degrave

12. Is the dematerialisation of public services an elective progress? A sociological analysis of the (non)uses by older people in France

Sabrina Aouici

13. The ethics of choosing not to use the Internet: A comparative case study of the education and healthcare sectors in Slovakia and Sweden

Oskar MacGregor and Barbora Badurova

14. The right not to use the Internet to play videogames

Jonathan Keller

15. An exploration of the child's right not to use the Internet: Disentangling from the digital web

Eva Lievens and Valerie Verdoodt

Biography

Dariusz Kloza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law of UCLouvain Saint- Louis Bruxelles, Belgium.

Elżbieta Kużelewska is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University Bialystok, Poland.

Eva Lievens is Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, Belgium.

Valerie Verdoodt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, Belgium.