A “Right” To Bandwidth?
What exactly is a human right? It seems that it is whatever you want it to be. Starting next July, every person in Finland will have the right to a one-megabit broadband connection, according to the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Finland is the world’s first country to create laws guaranteeing broadband access and the Finnish people are also legally guaranteed a 100Mb broadband connection by the end of 2015.France, one of a few countries that has made Internet access a human right, did so earlier this year. France’s Constitutional Council ruled that Internet access is a basic human right. That said, it stopped short of making “broadband access” a legal right. Finland says that it’s the first country to make broadband access a legal right.
Guaranteed bandwidth, providing an endless supply of ripped off movies from Torrent sites, eh? Marvellous, this rights thingy, isn’t it…
If they have made broadband a Human Right they won’t mind kiddie pornographers accessing t’internet from in prison will they ? :-E
Yes, so its a right and free to prisoners, free on teh interweb at zippy speeds, but porn still costs a fiver + embarrassment factor to buy a tacky mag from your local newsagents…if they even stock them any more.
Odd, this life, eh?