https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50403613

The author says it’s mostly AI. “In my defense, only the technical parts are AI. But, thanks for the feedback; I thought I had unsloped it enough…”

Also at Git, in the readme for the tool to explore the data, “iKnow is fully LLM-generated and may not be 100% accurate.”

Infinite since he was convicted in the UK.

This was fake news the first 900 times it was posted, and still is. France doesn’t “plan” this. 10 fringe people with no power or influence suggested it. Everyone has already rejected it.

Again, here is the real story behind the sensationalized headlines https://tech-insider.org/french-lawmakers-per-gigabyte-internet-traffic-tax-11-10-vote-2026/

Headlines called it an approval, and technically it was. But the vote covered one amendment during the first reading of the 2027 finance bill, only 35 of the Assembly’s 577 deputies took part, and the government opposed it. Nothing here is law.

Please stop reposting this fake news.

This was “passed” by 10 socialists, out of a 577-person council, who held an essentially secret vote to guarantee the proposal was “approved.” This is a political trick. No one supports this. It will not pass.

In the U.S. this would be like if the 3 representatives from Wyoming and the Dakotas had a slumber party and the “caucus” decided to push a bill that required all children in the country to read the bible before going to bed, and then everyone on the internet started saying “U.S. lawmakers approve bill to force children to read the bible!!!” There’s a ridiculous amount of information being intentionally left out of that headline to get you to click it, and to encourage lazy “I only read the headline” and updoot farmers like the OP to repost it.

Here is an article that actually explains this, not some dried up old internet message board desperate for clicks. https://tech-insider.org/french-lawmakers-per-gigabyte-internet-traffic-tax-11-10-vote-2026/

PROTIP: If something on the internet outrages you or seems completely insane, it’s probably fake. Spend 10 seconds in Google before freaking out in comments and being an easily manipulated rube.