The Right Not to Use the Internet

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.

Autorentext

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

El bieta Küelewska 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.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1: The concept and its consequences 1. Ethical meditations for a human right to an analogue life 2. An attempt to conceptualise the right to access the internet and its impact on the right not to use it 3. Framing the right not to use the Internet 4. Human Rights and Digital Divide: Recent developments in the Case Law of the Belgian Council of State 5. Is There a Right to be Offline 'For No Reason' in France? 6. The Right Not to Use the Internet: Towards a Negative Digital Freedom in Polish Law 7. Non-Use of the Internet as human rights enabler? The curious cases of the right to privacy and the right to health 8. Digital Disconnection as a Plight or Right? A Manifesto to Re-Imagine Digital Disconnection as a Reasonable Accommodation Part 2: Contexts 9. Right not to use the internet: Lessons to be learned from the right not to be subject to automated decisions 10. The meaning of the limitation of the use of the Internet for criminal punishment from the perspective of extended mind thesis 11. Digitalization in Public Services in Belgium: Enshrining the right not to use the Internet in the Constitution 12. Is the dematerialisation of public services an elective progress? A sociological analysis of the (non)uses of older people in France 13. The Ethics of Choosing Not to Use the Internet: A Comparative Case Study of the Education and Healthcare Sectors in Slovakia and Sweden 14. The right not to use Internet to play videogames 15. An exploration of the child's right not to use the internet: disentangling from the digital web