Free Internet & Self-Esteem

Here we go again, that "the Internet is a basic right" argument, as also seen here back in January.  I swear this sounds like a joke:

“'Broadband is becoming a basic necessity,' civil rights activist [and former Executive Director of the NAACP] Benjamin Hooks added. And earlier this month, fellow FCC panelist Mignon Clyburn, daughter of Congressional Black Caucus leader and Number Three House Democrat James Clyburn of South Carolina, declared that free (read: taxpayer-subsidized) access to the Internet is not only a civil right for every 'nappy-headed child' in America, but is essential to their self-esteem. Every minority child, she said, 'deserves to be not only connected, but to be proud of who he or she is.'

Please, spare me!