Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

High Court Hides From Online Retailers Tax Case

One government arm serves the other.       Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers with no physical presence in New York State must go on collecting sales tax after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge to the law that requires it. The court order means the New York law remains intact and the high court  ... MORE

Peter Suderman: ObamaCare Is Working Fine

As long as no one tries to use it.        In an op-ed for USA Today published yesterday evening, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted recent progress the Obamacare tech team has made on repair efforts to the health law’s troubled online insurance portal, HealthCare.gov. “The site is running faster, it's         ... MORE

Guy Adams: Is Your TV Spying On YOU?

The answer is not so simple.        You are sitting in bed in your pyjamas, drinking a cup of cocoa. A loved one lies next to you, watching late-night television. Pillow talk is exchanged. An alarm clock is set. Eventually the lights are turned out. Earlier, you sat on the living-room sofa eating supper, before loading the dishwasher and heading  ... MORE

John Stossel: Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Technology

Technology keeps making the world better.     Invent something and the first thing that goes through some people's minds -- especially politicians' minds -- is what might go wrong. 3D printers now allow you to mold objects right in your living room, using patterns you find online. It's a revolutionary invention that will save time, reduce shipping     ... MORE

A Majority Of Americans Oppose The Internet Sales Tax

Our "representatives" continue to pursue it anyway.     Public support is waning for the Marketplace Fairness Act, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Taxpayers Union and the R Street InstituteThe poll, which was released last week, found that 57 percent of all likely voters oppose legislation like the Marketplace      ... MORE

Katherine Mangu-Ward: A Font To Discourage NSA Snooping

Fighting back against tyranny.     The ZXX font is designed to be difficult for machines to read. Former National Security Agency contractor Sang Mun created the font as a response to increasing government incursions on privacy. “I have become dedicated to researching ways to ‘articulate our unfreedom’ and to continue the evolution      ... MORE

Mark Nestmann: When You Need To Disappear

Leave no footprints.      Whistleblower Edward Snowden needs to disappear if he is to avoid kidnapping, assassination, extradition, or deportation to the United States. If you’re ever faced by a situation in which you need to disappear, right away, what would you do? Perhaps someone is bent on revenge and has threatened to kill you.     ... MORE

Wary Of Tracking, Users Flock To DuckDuckGo

by Nidhi Subbaraman.     First news of the government's Web tracking program PRISM broke late last Thursday, and by Friday, traffic at the indie search engine DuckDuckGo was on the upswing. The tagline on its homepage: "Search anonymously." "You could notice the difference almost immediately," Gabriel Weinberg, DuckDuckGo's founder    ... MORE

4 Ways the Fourth Amendment's Already Being Pummeled

by Ed Krayewski.   Last week The Guardian and The Washington Post reported that the National Security Agency collects information on the phone and Internet habits of millions of Americans. Since then we've seen President Barack Obama argue against the strawman of combining “100 percent privacy and 100 percent security.” We've seen the      ... MORE

Forcing Internet Sellers Into A Tax Collection Jungle

Cal Thomas on taxing Internet sales.     In 1998 when President Clinton signed the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibited state and local taxation of Internet access and Internet-only services, the purpose was to promote the commercial potential of the Internet, especially for start-ups and small businesses. Congress extended   ... MORE

The Power Of Any Government To Tax You

Daniel J. Mitchell on the Internet Sales Tax.    I’m either a total optimist or a glutton for punishment. I recently explained the benefits of “tax havens” for the unfriendly readers of the New York Times. Now I’m defending a different form of tax competition for CNN, another news outlet that leans left. In this case, the topic is whether states can reach  ... MORE