Can't seem to make out who the offender is here, who's what, where, why.
The article just seems so long winded I struggled to comprehend the salient
points. Is it me or is it because it's getting late, although one poster here
has blamed the wrong party for creating this taxation idea. I say it's a poorly
written article but I gather someone wants to tax the internet and it could
be down to the Europeans for coming up with this idea....blagger me if you want
to.

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

It'll also reduce traffic on the main internet backbones; hence, speeding up response times for those of us who continue to use it.

.......<grumble>......<mumble>.....

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#resist

Has anyone figured out how they are going to tax spam yet?

Set a right click option to report as spam. If x number of people report the same email as spam it must be spam.

That way if goverments and politicians try to communicate with their citizens via email and enough report it as spam, the government taxs itself.

Maybe US websites will be outsourced too. setiathome.ru

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me@rescam.org

Taxing spam -- excellent.

Tax junk sales calls too <smile>

Has anyone figured out how they are going to tax spam yet?

Good luck with that.....
It would be a bit of poetic justice however.

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"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein
"With cats." kittyman

Has anyone figured out how they are going to tax spam yet?

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A good side effect will be that a bunch of hit counters on crap web sites will drop to zero.

& Myspace/Bebo/Facebook/Twitter dies....nice.

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How many bucks tax for a Seti work unit?

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Might as well get it over and make it a buck a click.
You open the freaking door and you KNOW that's where it is going.
Instant monetary censorship.

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"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein
"With cats." kittyman

On the other hand, there's a rich digital world to be taken advantage of in other ways.

Sad, politics becoming more like big business every day.

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#resist

It's way past time to tax the internet.

We should be able to start off at 1 penny (or pence) per megabyte uploaded or downloaded. Once that revenue stabilizes we can adjust it up or down as necessary.

so once in force, the ISP's pass the costs onto the customer....Nice one - NOT!!!

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? You want added taxes? More regulation? Is this the same Guy I know?

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#resist

taxes taxes taxes. They better not make my internet more expensive...

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#resist

And this tax would fund German Eurobonds, right?

Really, this is the sort of US (and Euro) activity which feeds the 'American exceptionalism' vantage point big time.