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This is somewhat related to a ~3% Digital Services Tax that some European countries imposed on large-scale businesses. It's part of an ongoing attempt to get co

This is somewhat related to a ~3% Digital Services Tax that some European countries imposed on large-scale businesses. It's part of an ongoing attempt to get companies to pay more taxes in countries they receive income from. https://taxfoundation.org/digital-tax-europe-2020/ https://taxfoundation.org/digital-tax-europe-2020/ Telcos are lobbying for some of this money to go to them because it's "unfair" that they have to transit so much traffic from big tech companies on behalf of their customers (???): https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-consult-big-tech-contribution-telco-networks-by-end-q1-2023-2022-09-09/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-consult-big-tech-contr...

bell-cot 4y ago
The lead sentence of the story sounds quite different from that: > Netflix does not want to pay European internet service providers (ISP) for rising traffic costs due to the popularity of streaming video content. Edit: Yes, your "somewhat related to" is a pretty reasonable disclaimer. When I'm not trying to read too fast.
- hulitu 4y ago
  > for rising traffic costs due to the popularity of streaming video content. I haven't seen an increase in quality /s
falcolas 4y ago
> Telcos are lobbying for some of this money to go to them because it's "unfair" This always makes me giggle. A company who is already getting paid for transmitting data wants to get paid twice for transmitting some data, essentially charging their customers twice for some of those bits. Greedy toads.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  Yeah but telcos have big political influence in some EU countries, especially given that some of them were former national companies sold off to investors with ties to politicians. So they can just lobby for whatever laws they want. This demand form telcos is basically a mob shakedown. "Say Netflix, we heard you're making big money selling your stuff to customers ON OUR TURF. Here's the deal, you give us a cut of your sales, or else, who knows, bad things can happen in this neighborhood, and we can protect you."
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bell-cot 4y ago

The lead sentence of the story sounds quite different from that: > Netflix does not want to pay European internet service providers (ISP) for rising traffic costs due to the popularity of streaming video content. Edit: Yes, your "somewhat related to" is a pretty reasonable disclaimer. When I'm not trying to read too fast.

hulitu 4y ago
> for rising traffic costs due to the popularity of streaming video content. I haven't seen an increase in quality /s

falcolas 4y ago

> Telcos are lobbying for some of this money to go to them because it's "unfair" This always makes me giggle. A company who is already getting paid for transmitting data wants to get paid twice for transmitting some data, essentially charging their customers twice for some of those bits. Greedy toads.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
Yeah but telcos have big political influence in some EU countries, especially given that some of them were former national companies sold off to investors with ties to politicians. So they can just lobby for whatever laws they want. This demand form telcos is basically a mob shakedown. "Say Netflix, we heard you're making big money selling your stuff to customers ON OUR TURF. Here's the deal, you give us a cut of your sales, or else, who knows, bad things can happen in this neighborhood, and we can protect you."
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