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A new French report says the government should tax the online ad revenue of Google (GOOG) , Facebook and other Internet portals to support the arts: The report, handed to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand on Wednesday, says Google and other Internet portals should be slapped with a new tax on their online ad revenues in France to fund the development of legal outlets for buying books, movies and especially music on the Internet.

The French government minister who led calls to free Roman Polanski was under pressure to resign today after it emerged he paid for sex with ‘young boys’. Frederic Mitterand, who is openly gay and a close friend of First Lady Carla Bruni, had described the arrest of the film director for sleeping with a 13-year-old girl as ‘absolutely horrifying’. But critics were today pointing to the Culture Minister's autobiography ‘The Bad Life’, in which he admits having been a sex tourist in Thailand. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1218962/French-minister-Frederic-Mitterand-demanded-Roman-Polanski-freed-paid-sex-young-boys-Thailand.html#ixzz0TMOILKV2