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GB_RN

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4. User Access?

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 18, 2021, 04:22 PM

Feb 2021

Aren’t Internet prices high enough without adding user access fees on top of what we pay (highest prices) for the slowest Internet in the industrialized world?

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Silicon Valley-backed groups sue Maryland to kill country's first-ever online advertising tax [View all] Wicked Blue Feb 2021 OP

Break Them All Up mezame Feb 2021 #1

If making them pay taxes means less spam, I am all for it Generic Other Feb 2021 #2

Amen! Lonestarblue Feb 2021 #7

Make them user-access fees instead of a tax bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #3

User Access? GB_RN Feb 2021 #4

And why should we, the users, pay to see ads? nt Wicked Blue Feb 2021 #5

NO they're not, and you'd be charging the behemoth companies for their use, not users bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #6

Gaslighting? GB_RN Feb 2021 #10

Isn't it that way in your country? bucolic_frolic Feb 2021 #8

I hate online ads with a passion of a thousand suns and I would not shed a tear if their servers cstanleytech Feb 2021 #9

Online advertising is a money-making MACHINE! BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #11

Go Maryland! Fuck all online advertisers sideways. paulkienitz Feb 2021 #12