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Human Rights Are Universal: "Universal" tacitly Excludes Adolescents?

The title links to systematic procedures for seizing your human rights from the institutions that would bar you from them.

Two decades after “creating the internet,” Berners-Lee has recognized that web access is a univeral human right:

…humans have become so reliant on it that access to the Web should now be considered a basic right. In a speech at an MIT symposium, Berners-Lee compared access to the Web with access to water. “Access to the Web is now a human right,” he said. “It’s possible to live without the Web. It’s not possible to live without water. But if you’ve got water, then the difference between somebody who is connected to the Web and is part of the information society, and someone who (is not) is growing bigger and bigger.”

Berner-Lee, an authority with some clout in technology-but perhaps not in political action-echoes action initiated by the United Nations and realized in a few European states.

Wikipedia:

The United Nations has proposed that Internet access should be a human right. This push was made when it called for universal access to basic communication and information services at the UN Administrative Committee on Coordination. In 2003, during the World Summit on the Information Society, another claim for this was made.^[2][3]

In some countries such as Estonia,^[4]France,^[5]Finland^[6] and Greece,^[7] Internet access has already been made a human right.

Whether pitched as a civil liberty or a universal human right, it seems adolescents in the United States are the last empowered, last enfranchised, the community with the most at stake, and perhaps the one positioned to be the largest threat.

Let’s contend - or perhaps fantasize - that Foucault always intended to address adolescent oppression as his final analysis of dynamics power and resistance.