Broadband access becomes a legal right in Finland

Finland recently became the first country in the world make access to highspeed Internet a legal right. International institutions like the UN hafa promoted access to communications technology as a human right at least since UNESCO’s MacBride Report (Many Voices One World) was published in 1980. Several countries have indeed defined access to communications technology as a human right, such as France and Estonia, but Finland is the first to legally mandate access and to go as far as requiring broadband access, as opposed to just any old technology. Hooray for Finland!