[the_wolo]

Siding with Netflix, though it's somewhat weird that they call this a tax when it is a fee. States tax. Corporations extract fees. Taxes are for public welfare and balancing out the amount of money in the economy. Fees are for generating profits. That's a major difference.

[jiveturkey]

It's not weird. It's PR on Netflix' part. From the US minded POV, fees are costs borne for service provided. Tax is theft. It is weird that he said this in Barcelona, discussing EU, where it wouldn't have landed the same way.

[JohnFen]

> From the US minded POV [...] tax is theft.

Not really. That sort of thinking applies to a specific subgroup in the US, but isn't representative of majority thought.

[jiveturkey]

I wasn't being literal, just making a point. Like Greg Peters of Netflix was.