Can Internet access seriously be considered a human right?

I've read a lot over the last year or so about whether access to the Internet should be considered a human right and while I think some of the discussion is motivated by good intentions it shows just how out of touch a lot of the current technophiles are with the real world. Now the UN is weighing in and I just have to call BS on the whole thing. There are a lot more important things than Internet access: Food, clean water, shelter, sanitation, health care, freedom of speech, freedom of association, the list goes on and it's a long time before the Internet comes up.

How come the Internet is so important to the world? Surely it's more important that people have a roof over their head and the means to feed themselves and their family. If the UN wants to make a big hoo-ha over the Internet, should we now assume that we are entitled to be housed, clothed, fed and cared for by the state as a fundamental human right? Does this mean that banks are abusing mortgate defaulters by evicting them? Would a company be be denying someone their human right to make a living by firing them?

I mean, I can understand that people who are being oppressed find the Internet useful to communicate their oppression to the outside world but seriously, if they had a right to freedom of expression a lot more good would come of it than just touching the bleeding hearts of the disaffected westerner who wants to make it their cause of the month.