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david
According to this entry on techcrunch, Finland has become the first country to make broadband access a legal right. Hooray for that. In my opinion that’s the way it should be. Maintaining Net Neutrality is as important as the first amendment. This whole business of giving more broadband speed to certain companies or individuals because they pay more money just doesn’t make any sense.
The Internet started out as a means of communicating knowledge, thoughts and ideas. In many ways the social networking phenomenon we see today is not really a phenomenon at all because it always existed! In making this knowledge accessible to all you can tackle such things as educational inequality.
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| Posted on October 14, 2009
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Spain joins Finland and has codified the right to broadband.
Spanish citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband internet of at least one megabyte per second at a regulated price wherever they live… The service also subsidises telecoms to disabled users.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356014,00.asp
Posted on 2009 11 18 by kasmore