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Poland will face consequences if it introduces a levy on large technology companies, the incoming US envoy to Warsaw warned on Monday, as the spat between the two allies escalated.

The government seeks to present a model to collect taxes from the so-called Big Tech firms in the coming months, Digitization Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski was reported as saying by PAP newswire on Monday. Tom Rose, whom President Donald Trump appointed as US next ambassador in Poland, called the plan “not very smart” in a post on social media platform X.

Rose said that the new tax would hurt the relations between the two countries and the US president would “reciprocate as well he should.”

The response comes a day after Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski clashed with Elon Musk on the X platform over Starlink satellite-internet system for Ukraine and was also accused by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio of “making things up.”

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[–] cocolowlander@feddit.nl 106 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

EU really needs to at least get off of American tech in government service. Our tax shouldn't be going into their pockets.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 27 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah let's see how that is going: https://blog.google/intl/de-de/feed/google-cloud-und-bsi-sichere-cloud-losungen-in-der-offentlichen-verwaltung/

The "BSI" is the German Ministry for security and information security btw

[–] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 12 hours ago

Average German retardedness

Source: am German unfortunately

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 12 hours ago

What the fuuuuuck

Corporate-owned/non-FOSS software is just mindrot at this point, in the sense that the vast populous apparently cannot fathom that there's another way than trusting big tech.