[governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial period

[michael gurstein]

No, I don't think so Milton. I think it is raising a very significant issue
that someone somewhere has to be dealing with as a matter of urgency. 
 
If no one is currently dealing with it that is the problem not the fact that
folks are raising it as an issue.
 
MG

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From: governance at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf
Of Milton L Mueller
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 11:19 AM
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Subject: RE: [governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on
Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial
period



Well, let's see, there are about 10,000 local jurisdictions in the United
States alone. If someone has to contend with 10,000 X 220 (number of
countries) differing and constantly changing laws and regulations and taxes,
simply because it publishes an app on the Internet, then they will cease to
exist as a viable business. I cannot imagine a better way to crush the
internet economy. 

 

Now if an internet business owns real estate in a local jurisdiction, then
of course it pays local property taxes, and if it employs in a local
jurisdiction then of course that corporate entity conforms to local
regulations pertaining to employment, etc. But not simply because someone in
that jurisdiction uses the internet to purchase their goods. 

 

Really, the mere fact that we are asking these questions shows a certain
level of innocence and lack of exposure to practical reality. 

 

From: Roxana Goldstein [mailto:goldstein.roxana at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:08 PM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Milton L Mueller
Subject: Re: [governance] FW: TP: city government exercising policy on
Google Applications / consumer rights / Consumer Protection Act / trial
period

 

why not?

2011/7/8 Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>

Good god, let's hope not.

 

Do municipal statutes have jurisdiction over non-local global
corporations with only a virtual presence/assets locally i.e. can a
municipal tax apply to virtually supplied electronic apps for example?


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