Canada considering internet link tax

I can understand why Canada and almost any other country would be upset about the huge rivers of money flowing out to a foreign tech company, but this tax looks like it’ll just make things more expensive for the Canadian consumer. I think a better way to protect Canadian interests would be to require that personal data, servers, and support staff serving Canadian consumers be located within the country.

Internet and service are already garbage here compared to nearly every where else in the world. I've got two choices for home internet where I live and 'two' choices of phone company, both owned by the same parent company. I pay twice as much for half as much data as most other places in the world. My carrier subjects me to random throttling i've still to figure out entirely what's affected and when after years, Canada's internet policies have favoured big business for as long as they've existed with the consumers being constantly screwed over.

To be honest, this has been going on longer than there's been internet with phone and cable providers. This is just another push in the favour of big businesses who can afford to pay over others who can't, while the government takes its, generous, cut.

> Facebook this week told the Australian regulator that removing Australian news content from its site would not materially affect its revenues, adding that it sent more than two billion clicks to Australian publishers in the first five months of 2020 worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

How do they get that? Is it based on what Facebook would charge an advertiser for a click? I don’t know anything about it, but 2 billion clicks being worth hundreds of millions of dollars doesn’t pass the smell test for me.