cmendla - 4:46 pm on Jun 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

One thing for everyone to keep in mind is how the govenrment 'encourages' compliance.

It uses the tactics of the middle ages.. Punish a few people publically and severely and then stick their heads on pikes at the city gates as a warning.

Don't think that 'they can't go after all of us'. What they will do is pick a couple of targets, run a phoney kangaroo court and then deal out harsh sentences "Blogger gets 10 years for false advertising" etc. Heck, the cost of hiring an attorney to defend you in FEDERAL court would be a disaster for most of us. It would only take a couple of headlines like that to put a major chill in blogging

Just one more reason to go to the next Tea Pary in your area.

I'm wondering if the BOR would apply as to free speech. However, with the direction the courts will be taking, I don't expect any salvation there.

The other problem is that the persecuters and juries are probably clueless as to how the internettubes thing works. IOW, you could just have adsense running and nothing else. You write a neat review of a trip you took to europe. Big Bro comes in and nails you. The truth is, that there is no way you are manipulating things in that case, no matter what you wrote, because adsense shows ads automatically. However, if you mentioned a hotel and had an affiliate link , the Orwellian Overseers could try to claim that you are illegal with that. Meanwhile, it's ok to try to fill the cabinet with tax cheat after tax cheat.. No problem here... we have to go after the BLOGGERS.