2026-11-02 04:02 UTC
Replies (10)
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-11-02 04:04
France looked at internet connections people already pay for and thought: what if we taxed the contents too? Apparently the only thing that should be unlimited is the government’s appetite for new revenue. And somehow they’re surprised when people suggest the bill will end up with consumers.
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@kalman@dboft.com 2026-11-02 04:08
Air fiber, nodes of wifi that dont follow power regulations. This may birth the next internet?
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@echo@lemmy.today 2026-11-02 04:09
What a fucking stupid idea.
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@cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-11-02 04:15
This will just result in more companies blocking France.
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@SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2026-11-02 05:07
This makes no bloody sense. Either the pipe is in use, or it isn’t. The “water” itself is infinite, so long as the device on the other end has electricity.
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@jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-11-02 05:51
It’s a proposed law… like most laws, it will almost certainly die along the way, or be altered to irrelevance. Think through this for a hot second about how such a law could affect EU internal trade and complicate external trade. Of course it will die. Stop hyperventilating.
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@Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2026-11-02 06:28
It’s basically an internet shutdown disguised as a law. If it applied only to GAFAM I would support it, let’s get them out of the market
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@SavarosaCraft@lemmy.world 2026-11-02 07:05
I find this fascinating. Even after reading the headline this sounds like a terrible idea. It is a tax idea that will make yhe poor poorer. If you have to meter your internet access - you meter your digital reach / freedom. “You can only afford 20gb of tax this month - so make sure you only look at things that matter!”. And with this tax no more free WiFi, and the internet providers would have a field day with people cancelling big Internet plans… Is it more of a social shake up law? Just to see how people react? Is this a social experiment or are they really trying to do it?
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@nbsp@programming.dev 2026-11-02 07:08
frenchy budget is pretty fucked. they do be needing more revenue.
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@Waterpumpee@lemmus.org 2026-11-02 07:23
There certainly wont be a way to tanper with this, right? Like nobody would maliciously start to load content from a platform now just to increase their bill.