Several countries have adopted laws requiring the state to work to ensure that Internet access is broadly available and/or preventing the state from unreasonably restricting an individual's access to information and the Internet:

Mr. Rice said he did not believe that curfews would unreasonably restrict teen-agers.

Among other things, it prohibits local governments from unreasonably restricting wireless services.

In other words, legal experts say, a city cannot unreasonably restrict people's access to adult material if they want it.

However, there is an important caveat: The zoning rules must not unreasonably restrict accessibility.

Baseball and DirecTV will undoubtedly remind Martin of an F.C.C. rule that says landlords and condominium or co-op boards cannot unreasonably restrict the installation of satellite dishes.

Federal Judge James Paine said the new law probably violates constitutional protections of free speech because it unreasonably restricts advertising activities, but no hearing or trial date has been set.

The state law authorizing agricultural districts says local governments may not "unreasonably restrict or regulate farm operations" unless it can be demonstrated that "public health or safety is threatened."

It expands government control over health care and unreasonably restricts free market mechanisms.

We do not want to live in a Community which unreasonably restricts the entry of outsiders.