City of Phildelphia to Violate State and Federal Laws?

Will the City of Philadel­phia attempt to sub­vert Fed­er­al Com­merce law in favor of reg­u­lat­ing com­merce on the Inter­net, as one pop­u­lar sto­ry seems to be stat­ing that the city is enti­tled to charge every blog­ger a fee to post on their blogs.

Now that is just plain stu­pid, you know what the answer to this is?

Vote those idiots out of office.

Yes you know the ones with the big pay­checks…

Vote them out.

Ladies and Gen­tle­men, all oth­eres are exclud­ed from this con­ver­sa­tion.

If you real­ly want to under­stand what this is about then you need to read the fol­low­ing two nice­ly ” LEGAL” Arti­cles, which will put it all into per­spec­tive and hope­fu­ly lay this to rest, because to be hon­est, no one city can ever hope to reg­u­late inter­net activ­i­ty.

The below ACT pro­hibits a city which is sub­ject to the state, to reg­u­late Inter­state com­merce and it also pro­hibits, reg­u­la­tion of Intrastate Com­merce.

So to all the chat­ter­ing crowd, this means that the city has no right nor any legal grounds to suc­cess­fu­ly defend its actions in court.

Most Cities are ter­ri­fied of being dragged into court, more so if they are in the wrong as they are in this case, please see the sec­ond link below which defines the Pennsly­va­nia, laws gov­ern­ing intrastate com­merce.

Also see this on Lawyers.com

http://internet-law.lawyers.com/e‑commerce/E‑Commerce-Internet-Licenses-and-Permits.html

Once you read the two arti­cles above, you will read­i­ly see that only a State can legal­ly reg­u­late a busi­ness per­mit, for this class of busi­ness, sim­ply because unless the state agrees and in this case they will not.

The city of Phildel­phia has no legal grounds to enforce, this
$300 Yes, Vir­ginia, it is a Tax.

Sim­ple as that, seri­ous­ly, that is all there is to it now if the state of Penn­syl­va­nia decides to charge all inter­net blog­gers in the state of Penn­syl­va­nia, some of which they will be relat­ed to, then yes, it will be legal, but and here is where the road meets the rub­ber,

This is only if the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment, allows the state to supercede, the Fed­er­al Act gov­ern­ing Inter­net activ­i­ties, and that is not going to hap­pen.

So again, this is about intim­i­da­tion, if the city can threat­en you into pay­ing them
$300 bucks, then they can, but if you dont pay it they can do noth­ing legal­ly to enforce it,

Real­ly inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion here, lots of strong feel­ings, and Semi facts, even some that claimed they had the facts and oth­ers were incor­rect.