Five years ago this week… France introduced a “tech tax” on the largest giants in the industry known at the time under the GAFA initialism (Google, Amazon, Facebook—now Meta—and Apple), bringing in €591 million ($645 million) into the state’s coffers in 2022. Austria followed in Paris’ footsteps and began planning its own implementation of the levy, while the EU as a whole agreed in December 2022 to ensure a minimum global level of taxation of 15% for multinational groups with a parent or subsidiary located in the bloc making more than €750 million worldwide ($818 million). These laws came into effect this week, on January 1, 2024. A trio of tier 2/3 US cable TV operators – Ketchikan Public Utilities…