The French president Emmanuel Macron has warned a gathering of global tech bosses – including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg – that they cannot ride the coattails of the digital economy without giving back to society. Macron told key tech figures at the Elysée palace on Wednesday that they could not just be “free riding” without taking into account the common good. He called on them to help improve “social situations, inequalities, climate change.”“It is not possible just to have free-riding on one side, when you make a good business,” the French president said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest French President Emmanuel Macron meets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Élysée Palace in Paris. The European commission wants big tech companies to pay a 3% digital tax, to put them on a level-playing field with their bricks-and-mortar rivals.

Source: The Guardian May 23, 2018 12:54 UTC