Netflix's taxes, the reprieve of France 4, the death of France Ô and Squeezie who leaves Webedia

We knew for a long time that Netflix did not like paying too much tax, we know the amount paid by the platform for the year 2019.

564,174 euros! In 2019, Netflix wrote the French tax authorities a check for 564,174 euros. Last year, when filing its tax return, Netflix put 26 million euros in the turnover box. Capital magazine, which reveals the info, made a completely different calculation. France and its nearly seven million subscribers would bring 800 million euros to the number 1 platform in the world. 30 times more than what Netflix says here. 

And is it legal?

Perfectly legal. Because Netflix is ​​headquartered in the Netherlands in Europe. In the duchy, companies really don't pay a lot of tax. With its French subsidiary, the platform succeeds in a nice sleight of hand with a complicated game of optimization, subsidiaries, escalations, re-invoicing, sub-divisions and fiscal tinkering of all kinds.

Netflix at the heart of another controversy for a few hours, with a new feature.

If you have an Android phone or tablet, you can now watch "Casa del Papel" or "The Crown" in time lapse. This is one of the new options offered by Netflix, right next to subtitling, choice of language or high definition. 

According to the first users who found out how to do it, over an hour-long episode you can save up to 20 minutes.

And it also works the other way around, you can also switch to slow motion mode.

Netflix says it's ideal if you want to enjoy every moment in front of a love scene, for example, when your two heroes finally end up kissing.

But obviously it does not please everyone!

Directors and actors are furious because it distorts their films and their series. Doctors are also worried. With "speed watching", that's what it's called, our brain has not finished being ultra stimulated or even stressed. The boss of Netflix does not care a bit you will tell me. A few years ago, guess who he thought was Netflix's worst enemy? The sleep.

This time for sure, it's the end of rumors in the press or speculation. The government has officially decided on the fate of France 4 and France ô.

France 4 remains on respiratory assistance for another year. The Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, had the power of life or death over this reprieve. So this is not great prose but here is what we can read in the press release from rue Valois: "In a health context which remains uncertain, the temporary postponement of the closure of a chain with programs intended for to young people and being able to serve as a complementary educational relay, appears desirable ". Understand, as long as there is the Coronavirus, France 4 will persist. In fact, it's a bit the same in the United Kingdom. The equivalent of France 4 is BBC Three. And Boris Johnson's government could well resuscitate its youth channel during the virus era. 

For France O, on the other hand this time, no doubt, is it the end?

Channel 19 will disappear on Sunday August 23, two weeks late. 

Squeezie leaves Webedia.

Squeezie, real name Lucas Hauchard, 24. He is the most famous teenager on YouTube or Twitch. He's the teenager whose videos are the most viewed. This is the teenager you should definitely know if you have teens at home.

Webedia is to the Internet what TF1 is to TV or Netflix to streaming, it is the stable of all these new talents under 25. It is the house that manages their career, their image and all their money.

In short, Squeezie and Webedia, that's all that matters on the Internet.

But the most beautiful of marriages is shattered. Squezie, a growing teenager, wants to stand on his own feet. This is not very surprising because, last spring, Webedia launched a major live program on the Internet where comedians came to talk, joke, eat with each other and play together. It was a failure as seldom seen and Squeezie had crushed them.

Squeezie is also a singer rapper recently, he released the title "Guépard" featuring with Nemir. The album due in less than a month, September 1st.