International Cyber Digest(@IntCyberDigest):‼️ French lawmakers voted for an internet traffic tax that the makers of VLC say would cost them more than €1M a year. Content providers would pay €0.055 for every gigabyte sent to French users, as counted by ISPs. Its Socialist authors expect €10B a year. The government opposed it, warning that about half the bill would fall on smaller providers, many of them French. It passed 11 votes to 10, with 35 of 577 deputies present.

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2026.10.30 18:59

‼️ French lawmakers voted for an internet traffic tax that the makers of VLC say would cost them more than €1M a year. Content providers would pay €0.055 for every gigabyte sent to French users, as counted by ISPs. Its Socialist authors expect €10B a year. The government opposed it, warning that about half the bill would fall on smaller providers, many of them French. It passed 11 votes to 10, with 35 of 577 deputies present.

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