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Balázs Gulyás is a young Hungarian sociologist and activist who helped organize mass protests that took place in Hungary in autumn 2014 against a government proposal to tax the Internet. Gulyás organized protests against a proposal to tax based on the amount of data transferred or “consumed”. With him, tens of thousands of Hungarians took to streets to protest, which forced the government to withdraw its plans to directly tax Internet use.
We recently had a chance to talk to Mr. Gulyás about the protests and their impact on Hungarian society, and broader subjects of Internet taxation and Internet governance. The interview took place in Budapest, Hungary, on July 12th 2015.
Things that caught our eye
This past Monday, Professor Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden on the issue of institutional corruption and the practices of the National Security Agency (NSA). A video of the interview is available below.
Source: YouTube/Harvard Law School.
