If I cared what France wants or had any intention of paying it, France's dumbass "internet tax" would cost me 25 EUR/month minimum just to run my Mastodon instance.
If every country did the same thing, last month it would've cost me 856 EUR, again ONLY for Mastodon.
Unrelated to Mastodon, if I look at my Unifi router dashboard, I used 1.2 terabytes TODAY, just at my own house. If I lived in #France they'd want to charge companies 66 EUR for that bandwidth!
I would say I can't even imagine a stupider tech law, but unfortunately as of late there are a lot of stupid ones to go around. This one definitely ranks up there though!
@jonah Who are the people dreaming up these ways to tax us more? What sort of mentality must you have to invent ways for creative extortion?
Those doing this need to feel total shame and being unloved by society.
If you give your time to systems creating poverty so others have it big, then you ought not feel anything but total rejection by the majority made poor by you. Go live outside society!!!!