Does Egyptian Censorship Violate “Right” to Social Media?

by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog

I knew I was inviting a headache from the moment I saw the title. “Cairo Sunshine All Around the World” is a Huffington Post article by Raffi Cavoukian, the Egyptian-born Canadian singer who brought us “Baby Beluga” and “Bananaphone” under the mononym Raffi.

Are we witnessing the emergence of a new fundamental human right — the right of citizens to connect via social media — the digital right to communicate? Does any nation that disrupts or suspends the people’s right to communicate by this most democratic of means thus not suspend its own legitimacy?

Further on, he discovers another emergent right.

A new basic right is “the right to a future” for Earth and Child — for both our warming planet and her children scattered on all the lands called home. The right to a viable future is like a beacon to light universal human needs and hopes in this pivotal time for civilization.

Right about here is where the well-informed will recognize that Raffi is not the nut he appears to be, but a sophisticated leftist change agent. Raffi is propagating a view of “fundamental human rights” which is antithetical to the natural law upon which actual rights are based.

Read on at David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog…