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UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data
Wowsers writes "In an effort to get ever more taxes for doing absolutely nothing, the United Nations will consider a European proposal to tax the internet based on data that gets sent. The proposal is designed to get money from large bandwidth users like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix. Smaller companies that have high bandwidth requirements could be forced off the internet due to the taxes. 'The sender-pays framework would likely prompt U.S.-based Internet services to reject connections from users in developing countries, who would become unaffordably expensive to communicate with, predicts Robert Pepper, Cisco's vice president for global technology policy.'"
Fund your failed economy some other way.
Austerity and bailouts only prolong the suffering.
. . . and anchor it in Boston Harbor. Your Internet taxes can be loaded the next morning, after your tea has been delivered.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
That's quite a lot of text you just sent. Are you sure you can afford the bandwidth tax on that?
Not a problem. He's anonymous, so they won't know who to charge.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.