why should "online" stores have an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores?
Exactly. So every "brick-and-mortar" store should be required to ask for proof of residency and collect sales or use tax for every state in the country.
why should brick-and-mortar stores have an advantage over "online" stores?
People have the right to know if the car they're driving -- or are going to buy -- is unsafe. Why? Because their lives depend on it, literally. For the same reason, people have the right to know if the OS they're using is secure. Why? Because their lives depend on it, or at least their carreers.
More to the point, the public needs to know that their credit card info is being sent to companies that care, to machines that admins are trying to keep secure. If the OS vendor doen't care, all that effort has gone to waste. And that will hurt. The public may not vote or write their congressmen, but they will take their business elsewhere if they don't feel confident in the security of their private data.
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why should "online" stores have an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores?
Exactly. So every "brick-and-mortar" store should be required to ask for proof of residency and collect sales or use tax for every state in the country.
why should brick-and-mortar stores have an advantage over "online" stores?