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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Tuesday 26 March 2013 03:14 AM,
Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJwbTiCjoeMY5u+6g7FCnTsOMhT99OEfedfkT69XGgh09H2dGQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">US Senator Durbin's speech on why the Marketplace
Fairness Act is important:<br>
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If market fairness regulation is important across states of the US,
why such a regulation is not required across countries? (Is it just
because in that case the net flow is so much in favour of the US?)<br>
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As Riaz pointed out recently, when US regulates it is *not* Internet
regulation but if anyone else, in order to protect their
socio-economic interests, proposes so, it is a direct attack on
Internet freedom!! And everyone knows what role global IG civil
society has been playing in supporting such hypocrisy. It should be
obvious that a global Internet requires global regulation. <br>
<br>
Whether it is cyber warfare, or collection of due taxes that are
needed to run governments and as redistributive mechanisms, things
seem all to point in one direction - Internet needs global
governance, that is democratic, equitable and just,. And for this
first of all we need an appropriate global IG architecture. And for
God's sake CIR management is *not* global IG, it is an very small
part of it. <br>
<br>
We we really take on a good thorough discussion on the appropriate
global IG architecture that the world needs - which incidentally is
the subject matter of the recently constituted CSTD Working Group on
Enhanced Cooperation. <br>
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Can I propose that the co-coordinators look at the possibility of
starting such a discussion <br>
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<br>
parminder <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.durbin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/videos?ID=450da78d-28be-4155-a2cf-32cf5f098103">http://www.durbin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/videos?ID=450da78d-28be-4155-a2cf-32cf5f098103</a><br>
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The Senate voted in favour of the Bill (75-24).<br>
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Sala<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Adam
Peake <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:ajp@glocom.ac.jp" target="_blank">ajp@glocom.ac.jp</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Short report
"A Policymaker’s Guide to Internet Tax"<br>
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<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.itif.org/publications/policymakers-guide-internet-tax"
target="_blank">http://www.itif.org/publications/policymakers-guide-internet-tax</a>><br>
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Adam<br>
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Salanieta T.
Tamanikaiwaimaro<br>
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> Dear All,<br>
><br>
> It was not that long ago when we were discussing
Internet Sales Tax and<br>
> differing treatments by the OECD members and the US.
There are further<br>
> developments within the US that are interesting with
regard to internet<br>
> sales tax. Two this end, here are two separate pieces
on it:<br>
><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/24/26-republicans-vote-for-internet-sales-tax/"
target="_blank">http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/24/26-republicans-vote-for-internet-sales-tax/</a><br>
> An opinion piece on the Market Place Fairness Act,
see:<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/18/the-marketplace-fairness-act-is-more-unfair-than-status-quo/"
target="_blank">http://www.redstate.com/2013/03/18/the-marketplace-fairness-act-is-more-unfair-than-status-quo/</a><br>
><br>
> Brief Summary on the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013<br>
><br>
> The S.336 Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 introduced
on Valentine's day,<br>
> 2013 and sponsored by US Senator Michael Enzi [R-WY]
There are 28<br>
> co-sponsors (21D, 6R, 1I). You can track the Bill
here:<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s336"
target="_blank">http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s336</a><br>
> There is a prognosis that the Bill might not get past
the Committee and 0%<br>
> chance of getting enacted.<br>
><br>
> The H.R.684: Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013
introduced on Valentines's<br>
> day, 2013 and sponsored by US Rep. Steve Womack
[R-AR3] had 47 cosponsors<br>
> (25D, 22R). There is a prognosis that it has a 28%
chance of getting past<br>
> the committee and 11% chance of getting enacted. You
can track the Bill<br>
> here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr684"
target="_blank">http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr684</a><br>
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> Kind Regards,<br>
> Sala<br>
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