{"id":890,"date":"2014-10-31T06:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=890"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T10:29:29","slug":"hungarian-premier-orban-scraps-internet-tax-amid-protests-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Hungarian Premier Orban Scraps Internet Tax Amid Protests &#8211; Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-31\/hungary-premier-orban-scraps-internet-tax-after-protests.html\">Hungarian Premier Orban Scraps Internet Tax Amid Protests &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">Hungarian Prime Minister\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/viktor-orban\/\">Viktor Orban<\/a>\u00a0scrapped plans to introduce the world\u2019s first Internet tax, bowing to pressure after tens of thousands of people protested at rallies across the eastern European Union member.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">\u201cWhatever the government\u2019s intention was, this tax simply can\u2019t be introduced,\u201d Orban said in a state radio interview today in his first public comments since the demonstrations. \u201cWe want to govern with the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">The Internet tax plan sparked two of the biggest rallies against Orban\u2019s administration since he returned to power in 2010. The rallies widened into anti-government protests, with demonstrators criticizing perceived state corruption and centralization of power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">Magyar Telekom Nyrt., the Hungarian unit of Deutsche Telekom AG, jumped 5 percent to 339 forint by 10 a.m. It competes with the local unit of\u00a0<a class=\"web_ticker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\" title=\"Get Quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LBTYA:US\">Liberty Global Plc (LBTYA)<\/a>\u00a0and Digi Kft. for broadband customers and subsidiaries of\u00a0<a class=\"web_ticker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\" title=\"Get Quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/TEL:NO\">Telenor ASA (TEL)<\/a>\u00a0and<a class=\"web_ticker\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: #003399; text-decoration: none; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\" title=\"Get Quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/VOD:LN\">Vodafone Group Plc (VOD)<\/a>\u00a0in the mobile phone market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 28px; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungarian Premier Orban Scraps Internet Tax Amid Protests &#8211; Bloomberg. Hungarian Prime Minister\u00a0Viktor Orban\u00a0scrapped plans to introduce the world\u2019s first Internet tax, bowing to pressure after tens of thousands of people protested at rallies across the eastern European Union member. \u201cWhatever the government\u2019s intention was, this tax simply can\u2019t be introduced,\u201d Orban said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[408,438,657,853],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-hungary","tag-internet-tax","tag-protests","tag-viktor-orban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}