The City of Brotherly Love has decided on a new means of increasing tax revenues; require bloggers to have a business license. Some bloggers do run a for-profit site but the majority of bloggers merely post their ideas and opinions. I unfortunately can see our elected leadership here in Losantiville wanting a piece of this action as well. The costof a business license could be enough to shut down some blogs (either they can't afford it or don't want to be bothered with getting a license). I see a dark side to all of this as well. By requiring a business license to operate a blog, it is an easy way to silence many bloggers without really telling people they can't blog.
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”--Benjamin Franklin
Monday, August 23, 2010
Blogging without a license
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