Another major challenge for e-commerce is to deal with different cultures and rules from different countries.  Ads for war toys like these are banned in Greece, but not in the U.S.  If this ad was shown on a website hosted by the U.S. and a citizen from Greece happened to find it, that citizen could file a court order to have the company in the U.S. take the image down.  The question is, does the company in the U.S. have to comply with Greek rules?

Digital divide, internet users, education, USA

Digital divide, mobile phone subscriber, global, type of country

This image represents the lack of tax on transactions made online state to state. The Internet Tax Freedom act passed during the Clinton administration. The law prohibits multiple and discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce and it wont be reviewed again until November 1, 2014.

This iamge shows the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers which was created by the US government. ICANN has a diverse international representation of various sectors such as the private sectors, the governement and consumer interests. It was ultimately established to allocate and provide a formal strucutre domain name system management.