Trump slipped up tonight

Trump slipped up, tonight

He threatened sanctions at France for daring to institute a digital services tax to reclaim money Silicon Valley are dodging tax on on revenues made in France

UK is planning similar, and rightly so

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48947922

France is doing Trump's job for him

Trump is wrong on this

France's tax rate is not relevent to the principle here

That's also not relevent, Joey

The issue is America is getting tax money from profits made on foreign customers

Where as those foreign countries are not

Same here, ET

It makes Trump seem hypocritical, Wizard

The purpose isn't to punish them, Joey

How so? Silicon Valley are not paying their fair share of taxes on revenue generated abroad

3% on revenue is equivalent to around 15% corporation tax assuming a 5% profit margin

If Trump wants fairness, he would be negotiating a tax-sharing scheme

I'm not about to criticise or select a rate, Joey, i'd imagine they set the rate to be roughly in line with their existing corporate tax rate

But in principle, I totally support it

I'd prefer a cororate revenue tax, personally, rather than taxing profit

Of course you would say that, Coolitic, you would prefer the world run by a corporate dictatorship

That's why you have it apply to all corporations

The French tax isn't a "silicon valley tax", it's a digital services tax - it applies to their own companies too

WHat?

If Discord makes revenue in my country, i want it paying tax in my country

Amazon should pay tax in my country on revenue generated in my country

YT should pay tax in my country on revenue generated in my country

They don't

Google and Amazon need breaking up, too

Predatory monopolies

Vertical integration and overwhelming market share

Illegal and uncompetitive practices

Google banning competitors from their market place

Political interference

Amazon are very large in the hosting and backend services sector too, ET

Similar political interference there

These industries alongside social media need regulating

Doubt it, System11

Nicest solution would be to force digital service companies to open companies in the countries they operate in and ensure all revenue from that country is passed through and taxed via that company

But tbh, i'd prefer they were regulated first as a matter of priority

Double tax is your problem, Coolitic

It's up to the USA not to double-tax digital service companies based in the USA

And stuff is double taxed all the time

By the USA as well as other countries

I can understand the spite - silicon valley is openly malevolent and evil at this point

If they went, competitors would take their place

People wouldn't need to go without it

UX?

I code for a living, darling, i'd be fine

You realise Google Facebook and Twatter don't have the monopoly on user interface

The Internet was a -much- better place before normies ruined it

I'm baffled by this insistence that if facebook and twitter went away, suddenly nobody would be able to use a computer

Then what is your point

What we're demanding is a level playing field with objective and fairly/equally applied rules, protections against monopolies, protection against political intereference and bias, and appropriate taxation

It'd be like brexit - a shock followed by period of high entropy as people move platforms, and then back to normal

Someone else already did

If YT didn't exist, that custom would go elsewhere

Lol, of course they would

There are, System11

There are working and scalable alternatives for all these companies

They're just small -now-

Bitchute

That's retarded, Joey

That's like claiming peasants oppressed under a feudal system are communists because they care about not dying of starvation

Youtube lacks a working monetisation model

Here? nowhere, Joey

UK

In places of high crime and no jobs at a push

That being said, the problem with housing in the UK is mainly a problem of mass immigration and retarded government policy which saw rich people usurp the housing market at taxpayer expense

Steam? It's garbage

It's a game rental service

w/o steam, an alternative would have come along

It's fucking awful in the UK, Joey

The rental prices are similar in the UK for smaller houses, but on roughly half the salary

Wages have been static for 10 years while house prices have not been

The PC gaming market, in the event of sudden death of Steam, would fragment, but would recover

A few things, Joey

When the interest rates went to almost zero, housing became an investment class that attracted a shit ton of money - added to which the government pays 'housing benefit' a welfare which covers rent, and thus you created an investment class whose profit came at the expense of the tax payer

Combine that with the fact we're an island with limited scope for expansion, and mass immigration, and you have a recipe for house prices rising faster than wages for prolonged periods

I personally hate steam because it doesn't sell games

Yet pretends it does

If a platform has the means and right to arbitrarily deprive you of your ability to install and play a game your bought, then it's fundamentally flawed

It's really nothing to do with DRM

All steam need to do is change their "backup" option to include a standalone installer

Why the fuck does it need a reason?

Doesn't matter how big the client is - the fact is it is a client at all, and they can arbitrarily block your access to it

They have

Yes

They did it to me last year

They ended support for XP

Wouldn't connect

Couldn't reinstall

You need the client to restore from the backup you daft sod

The model is the problem, Gespa

It's why I don't buy new games

That and they're shit

And I don't have time

The DRM should be done via webservice

You're missing the point, Gespa

It's deliberate building in of deprecation