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What would be the economic impact to French business if Google (and by extension anyone else that would get taxed) didn't provide their free services? I'd guess
by iamben 14y ago
What would be the economic impact to French business if Google (and by extension anyone else that would get taxed) didn't provide their free services? I'd guess considerably more than the revenue they make?
- jobigoud 14y agoAbsolutely. It's ridiculous (and I'm french). Nobody is forcing anyone to use Google services. However, there is indeed an ongoing war between Google and the major ISP over bandwidth costs. "Free" one of the major ISP says that Google should pay a bit more for the massive bandwidth taken by YouTube. Last week or so, they made a silent remote update to all their router with an automatic filtering out of all Google ads. That time it's the government that thought it was a bit too much. War I tell you.
- revelation 14y agoThat war will be quickly over once Google blocks Free internet users. If ISPs are hellbent on making internet access a premium product with various feature sets and tiers and segregation, let them have it. Your post is missing the critical two words net neutrality (which is what we want) and douple dipping (which is what ISPs want).