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Re:Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic by toyg on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:57AM (#8492449)
Metro is not "free press", it's a joke of a newspaper. Nobody can seriously think to rely on Metro for political or hard-hitting news.

What if the tax is just a trojan horse? If it's introduced, the government will have to install "smart meters" somewhere, checking who consumed what in order to reconcile it with the amount of paid tax. The move from "smart meters" to "total eavesdropping capability" is then just a firmware update away.

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Re:Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic by coldtea on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:55AM (#8492683)
Only they can already do that with the cooperation of the ISPs or control of the national backbones, with no need for some tax. And probably they are already doing it. And worse, the "five eyes" are doing too (worse, as they are not even your own elected government).
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Re:Hungary plans new tax on Internet traffic by riffraff on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @02:22PM (#8494195)
"free press" meant "gratis" in this context.

If you really think the political news/anything ratio is higher in the average megabyte of internet download than in Metro I am afraid you live in a very unusual bubble.

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