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So, why should anyone want to impose licensing on bloggers? Why did King George want to limit the Colonist’s access to printing presses and their output? Why do the Chinese, Iranian & Egyptian regimes imprison and torture bloggers? Censorship is the tyrant’s way of preserving his grip on power. In a relatively free society, censorship is the first rung on the ladder to tyranny.
We have no lever of power with which to affect the travesty unfolding in Amsterdam. We can observe and criticize, venting as Condell has done, but we need to do more. We need to be vigilant to prevent or reverse the enactment by our own legislatures, of legislation patterned after that of the Netherlands.
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