Hungary - Cabra West - and the rest of Ireland The internet tax in Hungary was set initially at a monthly 150 forints per gigabyte (50p) – one news agency estimated it the equivalent of 11 cents per hour on Facebook, €15 per movie stream, €250 for watching a full TV series. The resulting likely charge per household of four could easily have run to €50-€60 a month, no mean cost in a country where the monthly average per capita income is €725. By Friday, reckoning discretion to be the better part of valour, Mr Orbán (The President) abandoned the new tax altogether. People power.’ Below, earlier in the week tens of thousands of Hungarians held up their mobile phones as they crossed the Elisabeth Bridge, in Budapest, during a protest against the tax on internet data transfers. People Power won the day. It can happen in Ireland with proposed Water Charges. Carry on folks. Cabra West and Stoneybatter are setting the example with peaceful protests.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 08:33:23 +0000
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