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Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’<\/a><\/p>\n

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Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’ Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,271],"class_list":["post-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-links","tag-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-1mo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3837,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/09\/atollscape-you-are-not-connected-to-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":5232,"position":0},"title":"atollscape: You are not connected\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 9, 2011","format":"gallery","excerpt":"atollscape: You are not connected to the internet. 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