Benin has joined a fray and growing list of African states imposing spurious taxes on citizens for using the internet. The government passed a decree in late August taxing its citizens for accessing the internet and social-media apps. The directive, first proposed in July, institutes a fee (link in French) of 5 CFA francs ($0.008) per megabyte consumed …
Agence France Presse BRUSSELS: The European Union Tuesday denounced Hungary’s plan for an Internet tax as a new threat to political freedom in the country and also for broader E.U. economic growth. E.U. digital commissioner Neelie Kroes believes it is a “particularly bad idea” and will continue to support protests like those against the proposed …
(Reuters) – Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest on Sunday against a planned new tax on Internet data transfers, which they said would not only increase the tax burden but would also curb fundamental democratic rights and freedoms. Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, which has been widely accused of adopting anti-democratic policies, first unveiled plans …
Early Saturday morning, the Senate adopted its first concurrent budget resolution in four years. Democrats cleverly made sure to hand out enough hall passes to vulnerable red state senators so they could vote against the $1 trillion tax increase, while ensuring that it ultimately passed 50-49. Senators Baucus, Begich, Hagan, and Pryor were given the …
At age sixty-nine, Vinton Grey Cerf holds the title of ‘Chief Internet Evangelist’ at Google, and has recently discussed his views with Panjak Mishra of livemint.com in an interview regarding the future of technology. Cerf’s contribution to the birth of the internet as we now know it came in 1974, when he and his fellow American …