Canada to start taxing tech giants in 2024 despite U.S. complaints - BNN Bloomberg
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Canada will start applying a proposed tax on the world’s biggest technology companies this year, despite threats from American lawmakers to carry out trade reprisals against a levy that will primarily hit U.S. firms.
  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Algorithmic advertising big tech companies (Meta, Google, Amazon, etc) generate profit at the expense of society. They blindly follow short term algorithms with no regard for their impact on society. We obviously should tax them but we should also make sure our laws enable us to prosecute people who profit by destroying society. Hold them accountable

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      A class action lawsuit of several billion people would be kind of cool. Award everyone with $1000 minimum for the last decade+ of damages and see what happens 🤗

  • Beaver@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If they profit off Canadians then they need to be taxed. They should use the revenue to set up fediverse services.