[Freest Republican]

Interesting given they built their entire healthcare systems thx to US R&D. Without us there is no EU or for that matter much other healthcare. They decimated their military spending thanks to us. One would think the least they could do is pick up the electric bill.

[wildcard_redneck]

To Europe. America invented the internet Eurotrash, you are welcome. No w STFU.

[protoconservative]

I dont get this, just charge them for bandwidth like everyone else. But you see Google, Amazon, Meta networks dwarf the clasic non state regulated market in EU and USA. The old telcos would owe the new kids as the clouds become the transit providers. The telcos need to pay google to deliver googles data or google will do everything but the last regulatory mile.

Quite honestly this is a c level suite bitch that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Azure, Lumen, Equinix and the cablecos are not giving away 5 year peering agreements every time the carriers are jumping from 10G/100G/1TB/1TB/10TB/100TB technologies on the same old backbones. The entire model has changed, the clouds are the servers and wireless and home internet is the clients. Everyone else are 3rd party that are rent seekers at this time. The switches have always been 3-7k per port of the latest hotness, perhaps 14k if your at the top end of the non blocking, no oversubscription.

[mikey_hates_everything]

EU commies and censors. Internet access isn’t a right or free to those who can’t afford it at their residence. Basic service, not 100’s of megs and unlimited data volumes, is not expensive, especially outside the US. Or go to the library. Subscribers pay for their own Internet service to access those sites, which are paying for their Internet service to be accessed. Google should not be paying for me to access FR, because it will eventually stop me from accessing FR—and can.

[Prince of Space]

“Pay their fair share??!!?” Have they paid their fair share when it comes to NATO or the UN?

[thesligoduffyflynns]

I wonder how much involvement the

WEF and Schwabs minions have

since Schwab et.al. seems to be

involved in every single gawd D* mn

goings on within Europe and wherever

else the WEF sticky fingers are.

[Angelino97]

I don't mind Big Tech being made to pay through the nose.

Thirty or so years ago, I would have made a Randian argument in defense of big business. But these companies are so anti-white and anti-Christian, I don't mind if socialist foreign governments take a bite out of them. The enemy of my enemy, etc.

[Paal Gulli]

"Without us ‘there is no Google’...

... and the world would be a far better place without either of you.

Using any G**gle product is as much as begging for a procotological exam every time you fire it up.

[FLT-bird]

I am for anything that harms Big Tech.