Action on the privacy and the ISP content bills could be deferred until after a planned White House summit in October on Internet content-filtering and privacy issues, the W3C's Reagle said. Internet users will also be watching several initiatives on Internet taxes, junk E-mail and online gambling. The House version is likely to pass, while the Senate version is likely to be amended before passage, he said. If Congress decrees some type of Internet sales tax, consumers will be discouraged from hitting the online shopping malls, he predicted. The outlook for this bill is anyone's guess, according to the W3C's Reagle.
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