By SIMON CONSTABLE
A tax on using WhatsApp became the final straw for the residents of Lebanon, and it cost the country's leader his job.
Earlier this month, seething protestors took to the streets after the government said it would impose a 20% on the first WhatsApp call users made every day.
It doesn't matter that the tax quickly got reversed. The government's actions opened the flood-gates of accumulated wrath, leading to what analysts are calling "unprecedented" protests. Read more here.
A tax on using WhatsApp became the final straw for the residents of Lebanon, and it cost the country's leader his job.
Earlier this month, seething protestors took to the streets after the government said it would impose a 20% on the first WhatsApp call users made every day.
It doesn't matter that the tax quickly got reversed. The government's actions opened the flood-gates of accumulated wrath, leading to what analysts are calling "unprecedented" protests. Read more here.
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