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Why would you turn them off? Just make their prices 5% higher than other regions.
by boring_twenties 6y ago
Why would you turn them off? Just make their prices 5% higher than other regions.
- conductr 6y agoThat sounds an awful lot like a tax
- kchoudhu 6y agoI don't think most people will notice an extra 48 cents on their bill every month.
- Mirioron 6y agoYou could outline it in red with a note.
- boring_twenties 6y agoSo then, what's the problem?
- adrianmonk 6y agoOne reason to turn cities off is to see if you can turn the people against the city government and get them to back down. If that tactic works, then other cities might think it's not worth trying.
- adventured 6y agoBecause Netflix & Co. are financially stronger than most cities, or even a small collection of cities (those not named NYC or Los Angeles etc). They can push back against this abusive tax chase if they do it early. You have to break the move in its infancy, otherwise you'll have a tag team of hundreds of cities demanding you pay a tax merely for the right to deliver bytes to the citizens that the cities claim ownership over (which is what this de facto is, they're saying: we own those bodies and a toll must be paid for any bytes flowing to and from those bodies). Followed to its proper logical conclusion, Wikipedia must pay a tax, Reddit must pay a tax, Imgur must pay a tax, and so on. This is extremely authoritarian in its nature.