October 31, 2013
NetChoice has published a Halloween edition of their 2013 Internet Advocates Watchlist of Ugly Laws (iAWFUL) list. The list features legislation that could be extremely harmful to Internet freedom and commerce. And a federal Internet Sales Tax is once again prominently featured.
Here is the complete iAWFUL list:
- Efforts to Upend the Most Important Internet Law You've Never Heard Of - a seemingly small change to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could spell the end of user-generated content sites
- California Law Chills the Use of Internet Sites - an unconstitutional law is discriminatory and creates liability for internet sites that shows certain types of ads to teenagers
- Infringing on the Right to Public Photography and Making it Harder to Find Criminals - legislators are being misled to believe that a tool of law enforcement is unregulated or violates personal information
- Federal Internet Sales Tax - the House is currently considering this ill-advised legislation passed by the Senate in the spring that could require small, internet-enabled business to collect taxes for over 9,600 U.S. taxing jurisdictions
- Creating New Taxes on Travel Services - states are trying to create new taxes on travel agents and expanding hotel taxes to all parts of bundled travel packages
- Taking Away Control Over Your Online Accounts - bills allowing a court-appointed executor to counter your express wishes for how your online accounts are handled when you die