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I thought that was funny.
AS IF Google let alone Netflix will pay a tax to the Government let alone the ISPs have to keep track of data usage to whats going to what...
Looks like the commies won the Cold War and surprisingly the Russians are the least-commie country out there.
As usual, telco think they didn't received enough $$$, government rentseek
This never would have happened if US-EU relations hadn't hit rock bottom. In the past, the US used its soft power to nip this kind of legislation in the bud, always fiercely protecting its Big Tech firms.
That's not going to happen though.
is this a robbery?
Yes, taxation is theft.
But also: this is essentially egress pricing on big CDNs/clouds. And fastly's pricing is (digital) highway robbery.
Restrictions and whitelists will soon affect the entire Internet worldwide. These are just the first steps. Local governments will gradually introduce restrictions on dangerous news content and so on. VPN and anonymity are blocked or severely restricted.
Wonder if it also is implied on free services
Aye. Government are more interested in increasing their budget and giving handouts to bottom rung of society. They're not interested with the rest of society who clocked more than 160, 200, 240 hour a month
s/bottom rung of society/themselves/
50 euros per TB is insane for CDNs, especially free CDN like Cloudflare