This week, Free Press, an organization that works on issues related to our rights to connect and communicate, hosted an event on Capitol Hill to discuss the importance of preserving the open Internet.  Senator Al Franken (D-MN), along with reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, Etsy policy director Althea Erickson and actress Ruth Livier participated in the event.

This week, John Muller with the eBay Inc.

This week, Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY) filed the Marketplace Fairness Act as an amendment to the Highway Trust Fund bill currently pending in the U.S. Senate.  Senator Enzi’s aides confirmed that the amendment is the same Internet sales tax language that was passed last May in the Senate. 

Brian Fricano, a tech-enabled small business owner in Bloomfield, Colorado, recently submitted an opinion piece to the Daily Camera that urged federal lawmakers to not pass an Internet sales tax bill that would prevent small businesses from prospering. 

Representative Bennie Thompson (MS-02) and Tod Cohen, V.P. and Deputy General Counsel, eBay Inc. Government Relations, take a closer look at eBay Inc.'s mobile applications