Thousands of Hungarians took to the streets of Budapest to protest a proposed tax on Internet traffic that they say is unfair and undemocratic, Reuters (News - Alert) reports.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government revealed the plan last week. It would charge Internet users 150 forints ($0.66 U.S.) per gigabyte of Internet traffic—companies could write off the cost on their income taxes. The maximum amount would by 700 forints, less than three U.S. dollars, but for many people, it appears that any tax on Internet traffic is too much.

Internet activists in the country organized a rally on Facebook (News - Alert) held in front of the Economy Ministry. The organizers called themselves the “100,000 Against The Internet Tax.”

"The move... follows a wave of alarming anti-democratic measures by Orban that is pushing Hungary even further adrift from Europe," the organizers of the rally said in a statement. “The measure would impede equal access to the Internet, deepening the digital divide between Hungary's lower economic groups, and limiting Internet access for cash-poor schools and universities.”

The protesters came out on Sunday, brandishing smartphones to light up the building. Some of them went to the headquarters of the Fidesz party and threw computer parts at the building, breaking windows.

This isn’t the first time there has been proposed Internet legislation thought unfair. In 2012, websites across the world blacked themselves out to protest the SOPA and CISPA bills in the U.S. that they said would have placed too many restrictions on them in the name of curbing copyright violations.

Later that year, the European Union’s signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which similarly contained measures to combat copyright infringement online, also generated protests across Europe, after which the EU effectively rejected it.

The “Arab Spring” protests in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa were also heavily coordinated over the Internet.