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Posted on 10/14/2009 8:35:15 AM PDT by AreaMan
press box
If you're a blogger and you write about goods or services—and what blogger doesn't write about books, movies, music, theater, restaurants, home theaters, laptops, manicures, clothing, tutoring, bicycles, cars, boats, cameras, strollers, watches, lawn care, pharmaceuticals, gourmet food, maid service, hair care, concerts, banking, shipping, or septic tank service from time to time?—then you've just made yourself vulnerable to an investigation from the Federal Trade Commission.
In new guidelines (PDF) released Oct. 5, the FTC put bloggers on notice that they could incur an $11,000 fine if they receive free goods, free services, or money and write about the goods or services without conspicuously disclosing their "material connection" to the provider. The FTC guidelines extend even to Facebook and Twitter posters. If you received a gratis novel from the publicity department of a publisher and posted a tweet about it without disclosing that the book was a freebie, you become an "endorser" in the FTC's view. It could—in the name of consumer protection—hit you with a fine. The 81-page guidelines, which also mandate stringent celebrity endorsements rules, will take effect Dec. 1.
When we think about power-mad federal agencies, the FTC rarely comes to mind. This outfit usually busies itself with credit card fraudsters, intrusive telemarketers, potential violators of antitrust law, and the like. The new guidelines are meant to address another one of the beats that the FTC walks—advertising fraud. The new guidelines, which are not law, are designed to give advertisers guidance on how to stay in compliance with the endorsement and testimonial appendages of
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I just wanna say that I read this on my HP, great deal , ya can’t go wrong, while sipping a cup of Folgers , rich and so affordable from my Corning cup, keeps the coffee just the right temperature, you’ll never regret buying Corning, while staying cozy with my new Craftsman space heater, such a deal....blah blah blah...sue me!
“MAD POWER GRAB ...”
as in the finagling to add the health care, by tacking it on to an already passed bill by the House ... sent to the Senate
on every level, in every area of the governments power: creating new powers where they did not have them already, Ala ... the Security Police force,, Obama is creating, that is as well armed as the armed services. Just wait and we will see how he enforces his desires.
to name just one, policing the Internet, requiring charges like broadcasting stations have, censuring all dissent, shutting down religious stations/programs of the Christians, taxing EVERYTHING. ETC.
GOT IT? THE DIRECTION OF THINGS COMING.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
COMING SOON NEAR YOU AND ME AND ALL OF US.
We simply are not responding strongly to all the encroachments already made. mo
Free Speech is dead.....................
So, by extension if I write something about the health care bill that the NAZI’s in office don’t like I can be charged with some type of crime.
Because that is the direction they want to go with this make no mistake.
Is Slate even having second thoughts on 0bama ?
>>>my Corning cup, keeps the coffee just the right temperature, you’ll never regret buying Corning
Tell me more about this corning cup you love so much. I want one too. I want my coffee at “just the right temperature”
What does it look like and where can I buy one.
That is all.
The country’s gone mad. Period.
-Written on a Dell computer with HP monitor, for which I paid retail.-
I wonder if the bloggers hired by the Dept of Justice have to disclose when the comment.
“I wonder if the bloggers hired by the Dept of Justice have to disclose when the comment.”
That will be the day!
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