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

Human Rights

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

Edited by Dariusz Kloza · Elżbieta Kużelewska · Eva Lievens · Valerie Verdoodt
Routledge April 2025

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ISBN-13
9781032866314
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
April 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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 the very existence and the functioning of democracy, and therefore merit a critical reflection. With contributors from academia and legal practice from all over Europe, this edited volume offers timely critical analysis of the right not to use of the internet, at times supplemented with policy advice and postulates for law reform.

This book is of key interest to scholars and students of – predominantly – law, political science and philosophy as well as to policymakers, judges and non-governmental organisations at national, supranational and international levels.

Table of Contents

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 Digital Divide: Recent developments in the Case Law of the Belgian Council of State
Sébastien Van Drooghenbroeck and Pauline Lagasse
5. Is There a Right to be Offline ‘For No Reason’ in France?
Julien Rossi
6. The Right Not to Use the Internet: Towards a Negative Digital Freedom in Polish Law
Michał Ożóg and Radosław Piotr 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. Digitalization in 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 of 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 Baďurová
14. The right not to use 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
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