“Still, it’s worth sitting with how this happened: the amendment passed 11-10, with 14 abstentions, in a chamber with just 35 deputies present.”
Eleven people nearly put a meter on every byte entering France. Sold as a hit on Big Tech, it would have charged VideoLAN, a nonprofit, over a million euros a year. The government’s own minister said half the cost lands on smaller providers. It’s dead for now, but the Socialists are already campaigning on ten cents a gigabyte.