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The United Nations will consider a European proposal to tax the internet based on data that gets sent. The proposal is designed to get money from large bandwidth users like Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix. Smaller companies that have high bandwidth requirements could be forced off the internet due to the taxes. 'The sender-pays framework would likely prompt U.S.-based Internet services to reject connections from users in developing countries, who would become unaffordably expensive to communicate with, predicts Robert Pepper, Cisco's vice president for global technology policy.
U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show | Security & Privacy - CNET News
U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show | Security & Privacy - CNET News