How much will Jelsoft have to pay in taxes to stay online?
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Sure, the Network Neutrality thing is bad bad bad, but taxing half a cent per pageview? That's completely unenforcable and is nothing but FUD.
Write to your congressman and let him know your thoughts. Tell your friends to do the same. Inform others.
But telling everyone they're going to pay taxes on a page-view basis? That's a bit misleading and not exactly helping the cause. Instead, why not redirect them to an informed source? http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html:) -
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I highly suspect that you'll see it on http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp in no time. Any tax on pageviews is retarded. Google would owe trillions.--filburt1, vBulletin.org/vBulletinTemplates.com moderator
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I highly suspect that you'll see it on http://www.snopes.com/info/whatsnew.asp in no time. Any tax on pageviews is retarded. Google would owe trillions.
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So they want to tax per pageview? No problem, we'll make vBulletin 100% AJAX so that technically you only have a single pageview per visit.
What an idiotic proposal this is. Hopefully Congress will have the guts/brains to throw it out... but based on past decisions...Comment
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Hopefully we'll see Google whip out their own dark fiber network if this passes.Comment
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But if you made vBulletin 100% AJAX wouldn't your bandwidth get hit harder thus requiring you to buy a bigger server thus spending more money?Comment
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Last time I checked vBulletin grosses a ridiculous amoutn of money. I can't remember whether it was over $1million over 1 or 2 years but I saw that figure when looking through the publically available finances. You can speculate on how much they'd get taxed upon that.Dean Clatworthy - Web Developer/DesignerComment
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Technically AJAX lowers bandwidth because you do not have to send an entire page to update content. You just update the sections as needed.Translations provided by Google.
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How can you guys buy this "tax per pageview" crap?!
If you want to charge the website operators, then you'll have to look at the access logs of hundreds of thousands of servers in all continents. Definitively not feasible without spending billions of dollars in infrastructure and manpower.
If you want to charge for pageviews on the customer's side, then you'll be charging households hundreds of dollars each month. Definitively not going to happen.
A more realistic result is that companies will start charging their residential customers for bandwidth, just like how servers are billed for bandwidth. Reasonable? Yes. Will it be expensive? Just a few dollars more. Of course, that's not the issue here.
The issue is what happens when one website gets a higher bandwidth priority than another. The issue is not "paying taxes to stay online".:)Comment
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If my condom site, kingkongcondomkingdom.com, paid Comcast more than your website, ittybittylittleweeweecondoms.com, then my web site would load (no pun intended) much faster than yours.. That's the main issue..Comment
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How can you guys buy this "tax per pageview" crap?!
If you want to charge the website operators, then you'll have to look at the access logs of hundreds of thousands of servers in all continents. Definitively not feasible without spending billions of dollars in infrastructure and manpower.
If you want to charge for pageviews on the customer's side, then you'll be charging households hundreds of dollars each month. Definitively not going to happen.
A more realistic result is that companies will start charging their residential customers for bandwidth, just like how servers are billed for bandwidth. Reasonable? Yes. Will it be expensive? Just a few dollars more. Of course, that's not the issue here.
The issue is what happens when one website gets a higher bandwidth priority than another. The issue is not "paying taxes to stay online".
I suggest everyone get involved and let your reps no you don't approve. Though I'm only 16 I've contacted all of my reps and let them know that I do not support this in anyway. (Call even if you're under 18, they don't have to know that you can't vote yet.)Comment
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