• sgaM
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    20 hours ago

    so tax social media and gaming, not the shop

    • Katana314@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      Again, some countries do stuff like that. They put regulations on what addictive content games can have, like loot boxes. China has attempted to restrict how many hours citizens can play games (though there’s a lot of resistance to it).

      Social media is even trickier because it’s so vaguely defined, and doesn’t involve payment to begin with. What’s the concept - “Please pay a 5c tax to view one page of posts”? Even so, government committees have taken social media companies to task for their algorithms promoting divisive content before.