The percentage seemed arbitrary and it being retroactive seemed excessive and unnecessary. We depend on US content so much you couldn’t possibly function on the internet without it. It’ll force the US to limit services so we’ll be forced to use Chinese or European services and for what benefit? I use an adblocker and pirate most my stuff so no one is making money off me.

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The percentage seemed arbitrary and it being retroactive seemed excessive and unnecessary.

What?! 3% We pay 8.79% on our income here. Three seems low.

I feel like no facebook in canada would be a net positive, especially after reading “Carless people”. I don’t even think that would happen, it’s not like these companies can’t afford it, they just don’t want to set a precedent, and they spent all that money on trump!

I use an adblocker and pirate most my stuff so no one is making money off me.

You never use Amazon? I also use an adblocker and a pihole i think i see relatively fewer ads, i still see them.

The one negative i can think of coming out of this is the companies passing the tax on to us, i suspect that wouldn’t happen.

And you would know because you are also impacted?

No, I guess being well read and having empathy kind of allow me to consider how things affect other Canadians who are not me?

Yep, I’m slightly upset. Does he actually think something worthwhile is going to come out of the negotiations?

The attitude is coming from wishful thinking untempered by knowledge or experience.

Y’all are remembering that it’s us Canadians that will be paying this tax, right? It’s not going to affect any company’s bottom line in the slightest.

Sure, after they were a perpetrator and supported them for literally the entire war, they fell victim. Just like Russia, etc.

You don’t get to side with Nazi’s/fascists even once, and then claim victim-hood.

Reddicop is the perfect name for a shitty Reddit mod.

Oh God you’re insufferable.

It only applies to a few enormous corporations, that mostly generate revenue through ad sales.

Would Canadian companies really all have increased their Facebook ad budgets over this? I kinda doubt it, tbh

And correct.

So far, the replies have been “everyone should just drop all American services, that’s a minor detail for IT” and “a trillion dollar trade negotiation isn’t actually about jobs.”

I get the kneejerk reaction but damn, this is silly bordering on depressing.

Carney

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Cancels

Knowingly

Austria was annexed before the war.

Then why would Trump object to it then?

Try sending an actual written letter: maybe it will be a little bit attention because in this day and age of e-mail, it’s actual paper letters that are oddities that get people’s attention.

CACO beats TACO.

Becuase it maaaaaaybe dissuades SOME people from buying the service so there’s maaaaaaybe less revenue for the mega corps.

So yea… It maybe kinda sorta… Hurts mega corps, but it absolutely is a tax paid by Canadians.

Now you might say the tax is good because it funds shit for Canadians, but that’s a separate argument.

So yea, this is maybe? good for Canadians, since Canadians are getting absolutely FUCKED by anything digital / mobile / internet related.

If anything I’d love to see the Canadian market forced open for US telecoms, because as shitty as telecom is in the US its far FAR worse in Canada.

I mean… On the things to cave on… Caving on a tax paid by CANADIANS is not the worst thing in the world.