The government of India has decided that the players in the e-commerce sector need to be disciplined. What it has not figured out yet is how to do that exactly. The result: a number of policy ideas being proposed have the potential to do more harm than good. Initially, the government’s ire seemed to be directed at pure online players. Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal seems particularly unhappy with Amazon. Last year, he stated that Amazon was not doing any...