Finnish government making broadband a legal right is hardly a big deal. The story is on Tumblr radar now and people seem to be in awe.
All it means is that all telecommunicatons companies will be obliged to provide all residents with broadband lines that can run at a minimum 1Mbps speed. So no, it’s not free. Not everyone will have Internet, they will just have the possibility. And I sincerely believe no one has been using a dial-up in this country anyway for years, so the change is not all that big.
Oh, and someone wrote “Everyone in Finland gets access to a world of information as a legal right, and here in the US we still can’t seem to agree on the definition of marriage. I’m just saying.” Don’t worry, we’re still dealing with that one too.