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Aral Balkan

@AudraTran Hmm… if only we could crowdfund it somehow… you know, if we all agreed to pay a portion of our earnings so that they could be used for things that benefited us all. We could call it… I don’t know… faxes? No. Taken. Paxes? Nope, doesn’t sound right. Wait, I got it… how about taxes?

ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of

Aral Balkan · The Future of Internet Regulation at the European ParliamentA brief write-up of my talk at the EU Parliament last week with embedded videos of my talk and a link to my slides.
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> if we all agreed

Well, generally people start having problems with taxes precisely because they DIDN'T agree to it.

Someone else decided to take their money.

Usually that's theft, but calling it that causes more people to resist the collection.