The Internet Association, a group of internet-related companies including Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and many others has released a roadmap of policy areas for the incoming administration and Congress.
The roadmap's opening letter begins by congratulating President-elect Trump and goes on to say:
Our country's foundation of digital entrepreneurship flows from policy decisions the United States government made long ago to encourage continued innovation and a vibrant e-commerce marketplace. These policies have allowed the internet industry to flourish in the U.S. and to export our products and services worldwide.
[...] Included with this letter is a roadmap of key policy areas that have allowed the internet to grow, thrive, and ensure its continued success and ability to create jobs throughout our economy. The internet industry looks forward to engaging in an open and productive dialogue. Thank you for your consideration of the following policy priorities.
Most of the positions discussed in the roadmap are exactly the sort of policies we, as technical people, support. They include:
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:10PM
Patents are a tax evasion scam:
1. R&D in the states enjoying US financed STEM programs and infrastructure and make a bunch of patents. Costs are fully deductible.
2. Transfer patents to an off-shore shell company for 1$. Pay 35cents on the 1$ (or whatever) to Uncle Sam.
3. License the patents back to your customers and offshore factories at their true value. That's deductible for the licensee as a business expense - which includes your own factories - and the licensor (your shell corporation) is paying their fraction of a tax in Ireland \ Luxembourg \ wherever...
4. Tax-free Profit!
Might as well try reforming slavery.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:20PM
If Texas secedes, patent trolls can be defeated!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:17PM
At least slavery was transparently evil.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 21 2016, @06:09PM
Actually one of the main propaganda points of African slavery was that it was better to be a Christian slave and go to heaven than a Muslim freeman going to hell.