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Threat of cross-border data tariffs looms over WTO

elsergiovolador Silver badge

TCP/IP

The Customs Protocol / International Payola

Can you imagine attaching a customs form / blob to each data packet?

Then the customs officer inspecting your payload moaning that you didn't declare eggplant emoji and your data gets confiscated.

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