ABSTRACT
The concept of rights has been an important part of normative thinking since the seventeenth century's contract philosophers such as Hobbes and Rousseau and including more recent works such as those of Rawls, Nozick and others of the twentieth century. Three types of rights are covered by the convention: provision rights, describing the access to necessary goods, services and resources; protection rights, for example from neglect, abuse, exploitation, and discrimination; and participation rights, affording children the right to be respected as active members of their family, community and society. Before the potential implications of current regulatory regimes to minimize and control online risk on children's rights are considered, we need to establish what kind of rights we are referring to in our age, place and time of interest. Today, in the Western welfare states of Europe, and as exemplified by this UN convention and supplementary national provisions, the rights of the child are unprecedentedly strong.
