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Europeans Dig Internet Taxes

Scheme requires giving a UN body more power, which is always a good idea

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 3:16 PM

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European network providers today defended their proposal submitted to a United Nations body that would allow them to levy fees on content providers including Google, Facebook, Apple, and Netflix.

"We believe that this situation is putting at risk our capacity to invest," said Luigi Gambardella, chairman of the executive board of the European Telecommunications Network Operators, or ETNO. "We need to rethink together and to establish a new balance."

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