Danger in blogging

It seems now that there is danger in blogging...in an article that is on WND: http://www.wnd.com/2012/04/blogger-threatened-with-jail-for-writing-on-health/ that the North Carolina Board of Dietetics and Nutrition has told a blogger he is being investigated for providing "nutrition care services without a license". His crime...just writing on his blog: www.diabetes-warrior.net about his experiences with diabetes and telling people what he is eating....

Evidently according to their laws Cooksey was accused of violating Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes, which makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without state permission – a license. According to the law, “practicing” nutrition includes “assessing the nutritional needs of individuals and groups” and “providing nutrition counseling.” And evidently it got to the point where Cooksey e stopped writing his published advice column, took down his diabetes support packages and made the disclaimer more prominent. The steps appear to have satisfied government officials, who announced April 9 they were closing the case.

However both he and I seem to have a problem with all this....

What is the purpose of a blog? The official term for a blog is "web log" where a person puts down his thoughts in a log (a type of journal) for other people to read, to learn and maybe even to discuss. You might have figured that back in the old Reformation days, Luther would have put his "95 Theses" on a blog rather than on a church door....But if a person is restricted from writing down what is on their minds then you begin to go on the road to censorship and restriction. You begin to go to a totalitarian society where all speech is forbidden unless it is approved by a board. You could have imagined in the 30's and 40's if blogs were around; Hitler's Gestapo or Stalin's KGB going after blogs, where the blog writer dares to say something against the state or against the leader.

So the question is-Is a person free to write about their own thoughts and experiences where people could possibly learn something that helps them in their lives or we going to become "blog sheep" just saying "Baaa..." or whatever the party line is.... Is it freedom for all or freedom for just chosen people?