Welcome To Our Virtual Debate About Net Taxes
Earlier today, the House voted overwhelmingly for a bill that would extend the moratorium on taxing Internet access for another four years. We'll have a full story on that in our PM Edition shortly, but the vote also is a great news peg for lauching a new, short-term feature here at Tech Daily Dose.
We're calling the feature Net Tax Talk, and the idea is to engage our audience in a virtual debate about one of the hottest technology-related items on Congress' agenda at the moment.
Consider former Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor the inspiration for this feature. A few years ago, he wrote a book called "We The Media" and that gave voice to the idea that readers actually know more than we journalists do. That couldn't be more true than at an inside-the-Beltway publication like Technology Daily, where our readers are key players in the stories we write.
That being the case, we have decided to open the blog so those sources can go beyond the snippets of insight and wisdom from them that we are able to share in our regular editions.
The Internet tax moratorium is set to expire Nov. 1, and as Congress debates whether to extend it four, six or eight years, to make it permanent, and to extend or curtail certain exemptions, we will be asking stakeholders in that debate to share their thoughts here.
We've reached out to a few potential guest bloggers already -- the first will go online later today -- but others are welcome. If you are a player in this debate and have some insights or opinions to share, you can contact me at dglover@nationaljournal.com.
We're looking forward to taking this debate about the Internet to the medium that inspired it. -- Danny Glover, Editor
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