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  • The problem is that this tax doesn’t just target Google, Netflix, or Amazon. It taxes data delivered to users in France, with no explicit exemption for small businesses. A one-person developer running a website or SaaS product could end up paying for every gigabyte delivered to French customers, even if the business barely makes a profit. Big Tech can absorb those costs, negotiate better hosting rates, or pass them on to customers. Small businesses have much less flexibility, and the administrative burden alone could make serving French customers not worth it. This is being sold as a tax on tech giants, but it risks making it harder for smaller competitors to challenge them.

    Basically, if the French government does this, the French people may set something on fire.