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Taxation
  • Taxing online transactions that would have been taxed in offline cases seems rational. Issue: erosion of income as transactions move online
  • Fair playing field for online and offline competitors
  • Issue: basis for tax (nexus, location of parties and service delivery, who collects?)
  • Censorship

  • Increasing attempts by countries, states/provinces to censor Internet through court orders to ISPs
  • Technologically flawed model
  • Extra-territoriality
  • Cannot "censor" at domain name or URL level unless you control server
  • "black-holing" IP address is a blunt instrument