The Detroit News.
Critics say it's an unenforceable rule from small-minded bureaucrats.
Under a new Finance Ministry rule, businesses will be taxed every time employees venture into cyberspace on company computers. It will be a big inhibitor to the evolution of the Internet in Germany. On the one hand, the government says they want to give every school child a laptop computer, and on the other, they want to do this. It's a bureaucratic nightmare. Internet advocates say if companies get pinched for that, they will clamp down on Internet use at work, threatening its acceptance nationwide.