French lawmakers approve $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — US tech giants like Google and Meta face new levies on content delivered to French subscribers
- French lawmakers approve $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — US tech giants like Google and Meta face new levies on content delivered to French subscribers
This seems really stupid. Companies like Google, Meta, and Netflix are only streaming that data because French people want to access it. The French citizenry are the ones accessing this information and wanting it streamed to them. This is like if the French government taxed U.S.