Japan wants to tax WiFi

The Japanese Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications wants to start taxing WiFi and impose the same kinds of spectrum fees on users that they do for cellphones. It'd basically take the form of a extra fee that's collected when you buy a WiFi access point ot WiFi-enabled laptop or PDA or cellphone, but do we even have to get into why this is bad idea?

[Via BoingBoing]