No, it doesn't.
Philadelphia issuing fines for blogging without a license
But could this be one of those times that “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is [...] the right thing for advocates to do"? Evidently. Philadelphia issues no blogging license -- they issue a "business privilege license" (basically a $300 tax) to anyone operating a going concern within city limits. On their website, they even bobble back and forth between calling it a "license" and a "tax."
Is a tax such as this one stupid? For teensy businesses, sure. There's no reason to bring the bureaucratic hammer down on someone earning 10 bucks a year. But rules of this sort are a relict of the pre-Internet days, when piddling operations were invisible to regulators. The regulation needs to catch up, and that's all there is to this nonstory.
To portray this as the insidious creep of sinister overbearing licensing authoritarianism is, simply, to lie. We're not surprised.
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(Pudgy)little Matt so wants to be downtrodden.
ReplyDeleteLet me amend that. He wants to be downtrodden as long as it does not include the icky parts like being poor. Or having to work for a living.
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