UN To Debate Taxing Internet Data 284
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.'"
Hands off, Europe! (Score:5, Funny)
Fund your failed economy some other way.
Austerity and bailouts only prolong the suffering.
Dear UN, please send a boat to retrieve your taxes (Score:5, Funny)
. . . and anchor it in Boston Harbor. Your Internet taxes can be loaded the next morning, after your tea has been delivered.
Re:agreed. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:agreed. (Score:4, Funny)
Not a problem. He's anonymous, so they won't know who to charge.