ABSTRACT
The argument of this chapter is that the right not to use the internet is currently at the phase of an idea only. The chapter proposes the initial justification hypothesis to be applied towards any proposal of a new human right. Some alternative formulations of the right not to use the internet are suggested. The central question among the frameworks designed to conceptualize human rights development is about the sufficiency of moral standards to decide whether a new human right is justifiable. The quality control approach and the decrease in universality and abstractness hypothesis give opposite replies concerning the right not to use the internet. The right’s ontological features are searched through connections to the right to privacy, the right to good administration and the right to a decision by a human. The chapter concludes by noting that the strengthening of the obligation to use the internet for conducting official business with the state and obtain vital services from private providers also strengthens the claim of the right not to use the internet.
