my proposed feb 27 2015 tt comment


bq. _"Wouldn't make sense to make JR get a license and then have all us unlicensed users."_

If I want to go duck hunting, I have to buy a hunting license and a duck stamp. But if I serve my kill as dinner to friends and family, those people don't have to pay a license to eat the duck.

I don't know much about any of this net neutrality stuff, but my professional cynicism tells me to distrust 300-plus pages of anything that's produced by government at any level.

Where did this licensing-site-owners thought come from?

I don't know if licensing site owners will ever occur, but I currently pay monthly web hosting fees and domain name registration fees that users of this site don't have to pay.  And I maintain five other websites with more hosting and domain name fees.

If licensing did ever occur, it would probably be handed down by either the web hosting provider and/or the domain name register as increased fees. 

Network Solutions has increased fees over the past year or so. The web hosting provider that I use for Toledo Talk has grandfathered me in to their cheapest plan that they no longer offer. 

I doubt that a Facebook user will have to pay a license fee.

If you host your blog a Wordpress.com,  Blogger.com,  or Tumblr.com, but you don't use your own domain, then you may not need a license. So this would be okay:

http://mysitename.blogspot.com
http://mysitename.wordpress.com
http://mysitename.tumblr.com

But if you buy a domain name and map to your Wordpress, Blogger, or Tumblr blog like this http://mysitename.com then you may need a license.