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Volume XLV staff editors Danielle Cepelewicz and Maura McKeon call for global digital reform to make access to the internet a mandatory right as a matter of customary international law. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed the internet’s necessity as a source of communication and as a safeguard of the most fundamental rights, including but not limited to freedom of expression, freedom of religious worship, right to work, and right to education. Without the internet, many have had to face the possibility that the pandemic might eradicate their most fundamental rights. The denial of rights has had a disproportionate impact on impoverished communities.