Web sites to be licensed?

[kaspaas]

"The definition provided by the bill for the term “content” includes sound, text or pictures, effectively meaning that taken to its logical extreme, anyone providing content in the public domain – from a news service like ITWeb to a private individual with a personal Web site – would, in theory, need a licence."

From

http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2003/0312041212.asp?A=SME&O=F

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[mbs]

I wouldn't be too worried about this - if you note what Ant Brooks of the ISPA said, it's clear that consitutional protections exist (probably speech and association provisions). Technologically I believe it would entail massive monitoring/management systems and infrastructure to manage a licensed website scenario, which would prove to be unaffordable - alternatively close-off the pipes, which will never happen... Or maybe I'm being naive?

[mithrandi]

Just encrypt it all; an SSL pipe is an SSL pipe is an SSL pipe.