Should EU tax Google, Facebook...

[Finnish Swede]

[kundur]

Those platforms earn billions out of ads and similar sources, they bill their advertisers based on the numbers of viewers they have. And viewers on those platforms are the citizens of countries across the world. Every single country should thus tax Google, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and all the others. The 20th century concept of the territoriality of the transaction (to apply VAT, customs etc) must be re-adapted to the 21st century's digital reality.
Otherwise, States cannot resist against the Globalists. Online Sovereignty matters.

[Renekton]

Yes, especially Facebook

[Faklon]

How can you tax facebook?

Taxing Google or Microsoft would likely hurt European companies as there is no competition for their products.

[Lemminkäinen]

USA's government continues setting sanctions against people they don't like. ICC's investigators are on the black list after they started to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=pr1535

There are several new cases. Remember, it is dangerous to publish this kind of information, because you can get a ban of travelling to USA.

[Peterski]

Of course the EU should tax them, I agree.

[pulstar]

How can you tax facebook?

Taxing Google or Microsoft would likely hurt European companies as there is no competition for their products.

Are you trying to say that Google and Microsoft products are irreplacable? Or at least replacable with much worse alternative?

[Lemminkäinen]

How can you tax facebook?

Taxing Google or Microsoft would likely hurt European companies as there is no competition for their products.

Of course they are now irreplacable, but on the other hand they do business as usual and don't want to kill a milking cow. This a very ordinary situation in business. The problem is that EU isn't able to make decisions.

[Lemminkäinen]

This all is bound together, US control over the net using companies like Google, US bans to achieve economic advantages based on the position of dollar as a reserve currency on the global market and the restriction of the freedom of speech by the Cancel culture and it's precursors and followers. Obviously we are going to darker times, compared to the heydays of the catholic religion and Pope. True believers have found New Satan, China, and they are now collecting people to the Final Battle against her and her Evil Axel .