gátoltuk

Gátoltuk is a Hungarian phrase that roughly translates to "we blocked" or "we restricted" in English. It gained prominence in 2006 as a rallying cry for Hungarian Internet users who opposed the government's attempt to impose heavy taxes on online buying and selling.

In the lead-up to the Hungarian National Digital Concession Law's approval, which included the 25% tax, bloggers, activists, and online entrepreneurs organized a massive online campaign under the gátoltuk movement. Their goal was to make the general public aware of the implications of this tax and pressure the government to reconsider the policy.

As part of their activism, gátoltuk supporters created a MySpace-style website, complete with a campaign logo and a composing system for spreading the word through popular instant messaging services and online forums. This aesthetic bore a similarity to a 2006 Flickr campaign's design.

Central to the gátoltuk cause were bloggers and online sellers who felt that the tax could harm their businesses and the online community as a whole. Although the exact inclusion of the tax partly came from or evaporated off computers of communication ministers, such legislative decisions long perpetually curtailed internet ventures hitherto varying still attributable investment jottings innovated new arena territories.