Paying an appropriate amount of tax in the countries in which it operates might be another. All that democracy stuff costs money and has to be paid for somehow.
Re:WhatsApp is back online in Brazil
by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:20PM
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It isn't a company's job to pay more taxes than it owes, it's a country's job to set sensible taxes.
Stop trying to tax "corporate income" for multinational entities that can trivially shift profits into other countries, and instead tax the thing they actually do in your country.
And if they don't actually do anything in your country, what makes them owe you anything?
Blocking telegram is classic bone-headed stupidity. It's like an invitation for government lawyers to burrow under your skin and lay their eggs.
But inconsistency only shows that one of their positions is wrong, and it's that one.