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

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Dariusz Kloza (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Belgium) Elżbieta Kużelewska (University of Białystok, Poland)

The Right Not to Use the Internet

Concept, Contexts, Consequences

Dariusz Kloza (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles, Belgium), Elżbieta Kużelewska (University of Białystok, Poland), Eva Lievens (Ghent University, Belgium) , Valerie Verdoodt (Ghent University, Belgium)

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Routledge
24 April 2025

Social & political philosophy; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Law & society; IT & Communications law

Series: Current Debates in European Integration

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 nongovernmental organisations at national, supranational and international levels.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Dariusz Kloza (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles Belgium), Elżbieta Kużelewska (University of Białystok, Poland), Eva Lievens (Ghent University, Belgium), Valerie Verdoodt (Ghent University, Belgium)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 670g
ISBN: 9781032866314
ISBN 10: 1032866314
Series: Current Debates in European Integration
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 24 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part 1: The concept and its consequences 1. Ethical meditations for a human right to an analogue life 2. An attempt to conceptualise the right to access the internet and its impact on the right not to use it 3. Framing the right not to use the Internet 4. Human Rights and Digital Divide: Recent developments in the Case Law of the Belgian Council of State 5. Is There a Right to be Offline ‘For No Reason’ in France? 6. The Right Not to Use the Internet: Towards a Negative Digital Freedom in Polish Law 7. Non-Use of the Internet as human rights enabler? The curious cases of the right to privacy and the right to health 8. Digital Disconnection as a Plight or Right? A Manifesto to Re-Imagine Digital Disconnection as a Reasonable Accommodation Part 2: Contexts 9. Right not to use the internet: Lessons to be learned from the right not to be subject to automated decisions 10. The meaning of the limitation of the use of the Internet for criminal punishment from the perspective of extended mind thesis 11. Digitalization in Public Services in Belgium: Enshrining the right not to use the Internet in the Constitution 12. Is the dematerialisation of public services an elective progress? A sociological analysis of the (non)uses of older people in France 13. The Ethics of Choosing Not to Use the Internet: A Comparative Case Study of the Education and Healthcare Sectors in Slovakia and Sweden 14. The right not to use Internet to play videogames 15. An exploration of the child's right not to use the internet: disentangling from the digital web

Dariusz Kloza is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law of UCLouvain Saint- Louis Bruxelles, Belgium. Elżbieta Kużelewska is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University Bialystok, Poland. Eva Lievens is Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, Belgium. Valerie Verdoodt is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, Belgium.