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Tach auch,
-Taxation of services
Well, that's not a problem as there already are mechanisms that allow to raise taxes for commercial content.
On the contrary, this is probably one of the biggest problems governments are facing with taxation and the internet. How will taxes for services and goods be levied over national and international borders? How will different tax regimes and tax rates impact the location of businesses? How will the current waiving of some taxes impact the income of countries and or states?
Just think about the different sales taxes in the various states of the US. Some have no sales tax, others different rates for different items... Or look at the different VAT rates within the EU. With the arrival of the Euro, will people start buying in the countries with the lowest VAT rate (assuming the tax free price is the same)? What will the impact on companies be?
What will the impact on companies be? Which law will apply to them? Theirs? The customers? If my company is in country A but I have my site hosted in country B, which tax laws apply?
-Finding things/navigating around
That's no problem as there are powerful search engines, and more sophisticated search engines working with support of artificial intelligence and information describing user behaviour gathered.
Is it? With more and more search engines allowing results at least to an extent to be influenced by "sponsored links"? And isn't this field much bigger than just search engines? With a lot of sites designed so bad that it's next to impossible to navigate them? Have "designers" really understood how to develop userfriendly websites?
-Privacy
Privacy is an issue that is in discussion right now. the W3C P3P standard supports advanced privacy protection as well as national and international law.
Does it? But what about the different ideas about what privacy is? Is there a consensus and do companies care about it?
-Encryption
Encryption is perfectly possible in the internet. The only problem is that most people don't care about encryption, and that national security agencies don't really like encryption too much ;-)
And that there are different ideas about encryption in different countries. While it's OK for the own country some countries don't want others to have the technology (at least until recently a lot of encryption technology could not be exported legally from the US)
-Lack of linguistic diversity
There are even documents in Klingon language in the internet, so I can't see there was a lack of linguistic diversity...
Yes, technically correct. But the vast majority is still in American. A lot of information is only available in American.
So how big is the diversity really? But that's a problem not only on the internet but also in other areas.
Gruss,
Armin