They had passed a special tax law to go after Big Tech’s dodgy tax avoidance schemes. It was suspended after Joe Biden’s worldwide minimum corporate tax law, wh

They had passed a special tax law to go after Big Tech’s dodgy tax avoidance schemes. It was suspended after Joe Biden’s worldwide minimum corporate tax law, which achieves the same ends (and is not myopically fixated on tech, when IKEA or Starbucks have been doing the same for decades). This is different, it’s rent-seeking news conglomerates like Murdoch successfully lobbying the EU to extend copyright to cover news snippets. Sadly France was one of the countries that pushed the most for this to happen at the EU level, so it is not surprising it would be the first to use the new law as a cudgel.