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.'"

Comments

agreed.

[Anonymous Coward]

the majority of the real economy is small and medium business.

taxes, regulations, and bureaucratic nonsense destroy small and medium business, while giving government and large corporations total advantage, in fact they are working together. in this way, the big dogs get to buy up, or remove all the small fish.

and what do democrats and republicans do? they keep doing the same thing.

regulate and tax the real economy to death.

while ensuring their own survival and their corporate owners.

and if you think voting Democrat is going to address this, you're a fucking moron.

if you think MORE regulation, and more taxes, is going to fix this, you're a fucking moron.

Re:UN always looking to one up itself in stupidity

[Hatta]

I'm just amazed they found a situation where the conservative canard "If you want less of something, tax it" is actually accurate and relevant. The internet should be subsidized, not taxed. You'll get it all back from an improved economy.

dear low IQ partisan assholes:

[circletimessquare]

The UN is deeply flawed.

Even deeply flawed, the world is a better place for it.

If you don't understand that, you don't understand enough of international affairs to comment intelligently on the subject matter.

Really.

Dont tax Data, tax IP.

[Lumpy]

IP and in Intellectual Property.

If the REcord companies claim that song is worth trillions in a law suit, ASK them where the Back taxes are on those Trillions. Software,Music,Movies,Books. Tax the stated "value" of them.

This fixes two things. 1 - Added revenue for the EU. 2 - stops ridiculousness in claims for Copyright Infringement. The company cant dare to claim $6500.00 per share of a song if they will be taxed at the new rate for it. Suddenly it fixes a legal and a financial problem overnight. They can stop paying Taxes on a piece of I.P. as soon as they release it as public domain. So old abandonware games, Old music music and old movies, will get released and not horded for no reason.