...isn't Internet a pretty cheap form of amusement? I mean, if you have an Internet-capable computer (and a crappy secondhand one isn't that pricey nowadays) then the monthly cost is not that much, and for price-per-hours of entertainment, it's a good deal. Not to mention the many practical uses. Hell, you don't even need home internet; you can write fannish essays and fics and draw pictures at home, and then visit a library or cybercafe to upload.

There is a growing movement to have access to the internet understood as a rights issue.

This reminds me of Cordelia in the Vorkosigan series; when she comes to Barryar and learns about slums, she's all, no power? Where do they plug in their comconsoles? And Aral's all, is that seriously the worst level of poverty you can imagine, no comconsole? And she's, duh, it's in our Constitution, access to information must not be abridged.