Next week, the Arkansas State Legislature is set to deliberate on SB470, or the “Online Marketplace Consumer Inform Act.” The bill’s authors claim that it will help control organized crime in the Virtual Marketplace, but SB470 actually marks an organized push by the big-box, retail stores to undermine and torpedo small, online business owners. Though SB470 is highly unlikely to change the frequency of bad business online, it does promise to threaten the privacy and safety of thousands of Arkansas online merchants like myself—and possibly put us out of business.

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