U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show

U.N. could tax U.S.-based Web sites, leaked docs show



The European proposal, offered for debate at a December meeting of a U.N. agency called the International Telecommunication Union, would amend an existing telecommunications treaty by imposing heavy costs on popular Web sites and their network providers for the privilege of serving non-U.S. users, according to newly leaked documents.

The documents (No. 1 No. 2) punctuate warnings that the Obama administration and Republican members of Congress raised last week about how secret negotiations at the ITU over an international communications treaty could result in a radical re-engineering of the Internet ecosystem and allow governments to monitor or restrict their citizens' online activities.

Doomsday for internet? Not yet ........ but probably could be one step in that direction.

It'll happen eventually. If it's one thing that has always remained consistent with government, it's that nothing will stop them from trying to tax and regulate everything under the sun. Today, it's the internet (among other things). A thousand years from now, they'll be drafting legislation to tax intergalactic space travel to combat sub-space pollution and "galatic noise."

/end government rant