Big tech should share Europe network costs, say France, Italy, Spain, but some fear threat to net neutrality | South China Morning Post

France, Italy and Spain are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure in the bloc, a document showed on Monday. This was the first time the three governments have expressed their joint position on the issue. EU regulators said in May they were analysing the question of whether tech giants Alphabet's Google, Meta and Netflix should shoulder some of the costs of upgrading telecoms networks. Google's 'fast track to surveillance' sparks backlash in Europe In a joint paper, a copy of which was seen by Reuters,…