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ANZURES GURRIA, José Juan. The Internet as a Human Right. Legal Nature an Purposes. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2020, vol.53, n.158, pp.521-552.  Epub 14-Jan-2022. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2020.158.15628.

The Internet is, without a doubt, a phenomenon that now permeates every field of human life. Since its origins, it has tried to be regulated by Law, but because of its transcendence in the development of people and for the exercise of other human rights, it has started to be considered as a human right in and of itself. Various documents and judicial resolutions have hazarded already to recognize the right of access to the Internet as a true human right. This present work addresses such documents to attempt to construct its judicial nature and recognizes it as a positive status right that requires specific actions by the State for its materialization. It is also addressed as an instrumental right, which makes possible the full exercise of many other human rights.

Palavras-chave : Internet; human rights; freedom of expression; freedom of information; positive actions.