Speed Reading — Level 4 — 400 wpm 

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A planned Internet tax in Hungary has been stopped. It was going to be on Internet traffic. The public and businesses opposed it. The government said it had frozen the plan because of street protests in the capital. It also listened to warnings from the European Union that the tax would be a mistake. The news was broadcast on radio. Hungary's leader said: "If the people not only dislike something but also consider it unreasonable, then it should not be done."

The U-turn is not yet a victory for the people. The government will meet next year to discuss how to get tax revenue from the Internet. It would have to be a different idea to the one it just put on hold. That one was a 60-cent tax on every gigabyte of data used. People worried this would limit freedom of expression and hurt online companies. A citizens' Facebook campaign against the tax already has more than 250,000 Likes.

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