{"id":6696,"date":"2010-08-25T13:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/blog-business-and-licenses.html"},"modified":"2010-08-25T13:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T13:56:24","slug":"blog-business-and-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/08\/blog-business-and-licenses.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog Business and Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yikes, Philly is starting to pressure bloggers<\/a><\/b> with ads to get a license for their “business.”<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Philadelphia bloggers were abuzz this week about a citywide move to crack down on citizens running a business without a license — which includes any local bloggers running ads on their sites.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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The weekly Philadelphia City Paper<\/i> kicked off the kerfuffle<\/a> with an article spotlighting several small-scale bloggers who were startled to receive letters from the city demanding that they shell out up to $300 for a license allowing them to operate a local business. One of the recipients had raked in a whopping profit of $11 over two years from his blog.<\/p>\n

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NBC’s Philadelphia website<\/a> accused the city of “taking a step closer to an eerie Orwellian state where creativity is crushed in the name of ‘the greater good.'” Right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin blasted the city<\/a> for “requiring a license for Internet activists and hobbyists to exercise their free speech.”<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the Washington Post<\/a> <\/i>pointed out the city was merely following the letter of the law and treating businesses equally: “Bloggers running ads next to their copy shouldn’t be exempt if the requirement also applies to people selling old junk on eBay.”<\/p>\n

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