NetChoice Publishes Halloween Edition iAWFUL List

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:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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