The large tech firms want a world where they aren't bound by national (or multinational) rules around taxation, user privacy, hate speech, or intellectual property. Or anything else.
Reposted from Paris Marx
Tech billionaires demanded Donald Trump use the power of the US government to pressure other countries not to crack down on them.

Now Trump is pulling out of a global tax agreement and threatening tariffs against countries that pass digital services taxes targeting multinational tech companies.

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