UK Government Moves To Tax Internet Use

THE Internet is fantastic. You’re looking at it. The Government wants to control it. To own it. Now see if you can link these two stories.

Villagers in rural Lancashire have become so sick of their poor internet connection they have decided to wire up their own homes. Armed with a fibre cable, a digger and a technician, the residents of Wray village and Wennington have managed to connect a farmhouse to broadband.

Now see if you can make the link between that and this:

Every Briton with a fixed-line phone will pay a “small levy” of 50p per month to pay for faster net access.

The national fund created by the levy will be used to ensure most Britons get access to future net technologies.

That’s right – the Government will control the web.

This money would go to an independent Next Generation Fund that would provide subsidies for operators to deliver super-fast internet to areas where it would not normally be commercially viable.

Unless, a private enterprise wants to do it for you and make a viable business from it. How’s that for freedom?

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Posted: 17th, June 2009 | In: Technology Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink