Posted on 10/15/2009 5:13:46 PM PDT by paudio
Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, says the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world's first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access.
The government had already decided to make a 100 Mb broadband connection a legal right by the end of 2015. On Wednesday, the Ministry announced the new goal as an intermediary step.
Some variation will be allowed, if connectivity can be arranged through mobile phone networks.
And an iPod in every pocket.
Is this the modern day equivalent of bread and circuses?
Gimme muh T1 line!
Rights are only negative, i.e. All people have the right to worship as they choose — to be left alone in their choosing. If you try to assign a positive entity as a right, by necessity it imposes a tax/responsibility (moral or financial) on another. So the Finns have a “right” to 1Mb Inet...who MUST pay??!? A right to health care imposes a burden on someone else to provide for it.
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