What the Helsinki!

For a country with a 100% literacy rate, it's no surprise that Finland today became the first nation to make broadband access a legal right.

As CNN reports, the legislation that goes into effect today was designed to force "telecom operators to provide a reasonably priced broadband connection with a downstream rate of at least one megabit per second (mbs) to every permanent residence and office."

So stick that in your sauna, Big Media.

Of course, we all know the real reason Finland is so keen on getting everyone up and running on the Internet. It's all a ruse to make Linux the number one operating system in the world.

Those sly Finns.