UN Mulling Internet Tax on Big US Content Providers
PC Magazine
ETNO reportedly floated the idea of a new tax on "high level principles"
based in the US, presumably large Internet content providers, last December
at a meeting of the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU). But a
pair of documents (here and ...
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WCITLeaks.org aims to expose UN 'takeover' of the Internet
Digitaltrends.com
New site WCITLeaks.org seeks to shed light on proposals that aim to give
the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union and its member
states more power over the Internet. Last week, I wrote about how the US
government is gearing up for a ...
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UN to tax American Internet companies?
RT
The ETNO Executive Board voted unanimously to approve the proposal, which
was then brought before the UN's International Telecommunication Union last
year. Only now, however, has news of the secret suggestion been made
public.
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European lobby group wants to tax US-based Internet companies
ITProPortal
The Brussels-based European Telecommunications Network Operators
Association (ETNO) submitted a proposal to the International
Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, calling for a usage-based tax to be
levied against popular sites and providers servicing ...
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U.N. taxes, censorship would destroy Internet, critics warn
ITworld.com
China raised the issue in 2008, quietly working with the International
Telecommunications Union to draft technical standards for security and
monitoring critics charge could make the Internet a giant listening post
for secret police and other ...
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Flame Virus:on trail of mysterious spyware
The Voice of Russia
The story of the Flame actually began in May when we got an enquiry from
the International Telecommunication Union which is a part of the UN and we
got an enquiry related to a search of a mysterious malware codenamed the
Wiper which presumably attacked ...
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