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Congress wants tax revenue on websites hosted in foreign countries. The website hosting the site will be taxed on click through and the Web will have more "thi
by maeon3 15y ago
Congress wants tax revenue on websites hosted in foreign countries. The website hosting the site will be taxed on click through and the Web will have more "this site is not available in your country" messages. This is how net neutrality dies in the night. Taxing IP by import duties and surcharges. We built the most powerful tool on the planet, and governments everywhere are trying to claim sole ownership of it so they can tax it and control it until it is as politically acceptible as fox news. My freedom to visit sites anywhere in the world will be going away. I suppose it is inevitible, humans in power are extremely territorial and don't like to share like the enlightened individuals who built the internet do.
A globally free medium of data exchange limited only by bandwidth mostly unhindered by any powerful nation will be an enlightened blip on the timeline of the human race.