๐ซ๐ท FRANCE VOTES 5.5 CENT TAX ON EVERY GIGABYTE BIG TECH SENDS - Content providers like Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Akamai (content delivery network) pay โฌ0.055 per GB they send to French users - Internet providers count the data per company and report it to the tax office every quarter, without looking at content or who receives it - Cap: 15% of the company's French revenue or 2% of its global revenue (LMAO) - Socialists expect โฌ10 billion a year. France receives about 200 billion GB a year (ARCEP, the telecom regulator) -> Invest in VPN providers if it gets adopted fully โฆ cause avoiding French servers will make usage free. Itโs not final yet, it still needs confirmation after being adopted by the assembly and can be thrown out.
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๐ซ๐ท FRANCE VOTES 5.5 CENT TAX ON EVERY GIGABYTE BIG TECH SENDS - Content providers like Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix and Akamai (content delivery network) pay โฌ0.055 per GB they send to French users - Internet providers count the data per company and report it to the tax office every quarter, without looking at content or who receives it - Cap: 15% of the company's French revenue or 2% of its global revenue (LMAO) - Socialists expect โฌ10 billion a year. France receives about 200 billion GB a year (ARCEP, the telecom regulator) -> Invest in VPN providers if it gets adopted fully โฆ cause avoiding French servers will make usage free. Itโs not final yet, it still needs confirmation after being adopted by the assembly and can be thrown out.
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