France Votes To Tax Big Tech By The Gigabyte - And Someone Just Bent The Barrel Back

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France Votes To Tax Big Tech By The Gigabyte - And Someone Just Bent The Barrel Back France's National Assembly voted on Friday to tax the internet by the gigabyte. An amendment to the 2027 budget would charge every company that sends data to French internet subscribers €0.055 per gigabyte , and its Socialist authors expect it to raise €10 billion a year. But by Sunday, someone had turned the tax on the party that wrote it. An internet user put a 44MB PDF from the Socialist Party's website on a server on his own machine, downloaded it in an endless loop and tallied the tax the traffic would…

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