They desperately would like to but each time they tried, the population anger forced them to back off any proposal.
If you do it at the ISP level, it is very obvious that it is the consumer that will pay because the monthly bill will increase of the same amount.
This is why you have the current proposal, because in their twisted mind, the rich digital giants will foot the bill of any tax without the customer paying anything.
The parliamentary responsible for that even said "the customer will not pay anything because Facebook is free".
To be noted that there are also to additional factor pushing for that on the political side:
- Here we have "unlimited" plan on almost anything, and ISP have to compete so no one can go back to "per-giga" plan to be able to extract more income. So ISP are lobbying hard for such laws that could allow them to have a good excuse to stop unlimited plans all at the same time.
- The political group that are pushing that are quite retarded, and they have an ecological agenda that is totally unscientific. And so they are really like thinking that they act for the environment because when you watch a youtube video dolphins are dying and if you have thousands of emails in your mailbox, you pollute as much as doing a round trip flight between Paris and NewYork. So consuming "data" is bad because it is like consuming physical products...
If you do it at the ISP level, it is very obvious that it is the consumer that will pay because the monthly bill will increase of the same amount.
This is why you have the current proposal, because in their twisted mind, the rich digital giants will foot the bill of any tax without the customer paying anything.
The parliamentary responsible for that even said "the customer will not pay anything because Facebook is free".
To be noted that there are also to additional factor pushing for that on the political side:
- Here we have "unlimited" plan on almost anything, and ISP have to compete so no one can go back to "per-giga" plan to be able to extract more income. So ISP are lobbying hard for such laws that could allow them to have a good excuse to stop unlimited plans all at the same time.
- The political group that are pushing that are quite retarded, and they have an ecological agenda that is totally unscientific. And so they are really like thinking that they act for the environment because when you watch a youtube video dolphins are dying and if you have thousands of emails in your mailbox, you pollute as much as doing a round trip flight between Paris and NewYork. So consuming "data" is bad because it is like consuming physical products...