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A proposed on the Internet has been put on by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Hungary's government was pushing full ahead to impose a tax on Internet traffic. It faced huge from the public and from . Mr Orban announced his government had frozen the plans after witnessing street protests in the Budapest. He also eventually took heed of warnings from the European Union that the tax would be a . Orban announced his climb-down in a radio on Friday, saying: "This tax in its current form cannot be introduced. If the people not only dislike but also consider it , then it should not be done."

Hungary's U-turn on an Internet tax is not yet a for the people. Prime Minister Orban said he had not scrapped the altogether. He said there would be starting in January next year to investigate the of generating tax from the Internet. He said it would obviously have to be in nature to the one just binned. That involved a 60-cent tax on every of data someone consumed. Critics voiced this would limit of expression and hurt companies. Citizens will continue to for a tax-free Internet. An anti-tax Facebook page already has over 250,000 Likes.

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