Tag: RIGHTS

Starting today, July 1st, broadband Internet is the legal right of all Finnish citizens. Last October, Finland passed a law that guaranteed all citizens access to Internet connections of at least 1Mbps. Today, that law went into effect, requiring the nation's service providers to cover the few remaining Net-deficient households. With an estimated 96-percent of the population covered (in a country ...

Just about every modern democratic state has certain pillars of individual rights upon which its social and political philosophy is founded: the right of free speech; the right to a fair trial; the right to... broadband access? In one Nordic country, that may soon be the case. In another searing reminder that Finland is, in fact, cooler than the rest of us, the Finnish government has passed a ...

After inciting an uproar with some rather draconian revisions to its terms of service (TOS), Facebook accepted defeat and retracted the new policies. (The controversial policies, which lasted all of a day or two, gave it ownership of all content posted on the site, including photos and personal information.) Now Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has pledged via blog post to take ...