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FTC Reassures Bloggers - Big Brother Isn't Watching
Legaltimes ^ | 10-14-09 | Jenna Greene

Posted on 10/14/2009 3:29:48 PM PDT by radioone

Bloggers of the world, relax - the Federal Trade Commission is not out to get you. That was the message from Mary Engle, associate director for advertising practices at the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

(Excerpt) Read more at legaltimes.typepad.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: bhodoj; ftc; newmedia; politics; weblogs
"it was the provisions dealing with bloggers and endorsements via social media sites like Facebook that got the most public attention."

What's this all about? I've Never had a single ad on my, or any other, facebook page...What am I missing?

1 posted on 10/14/2009 3:29:48 PM PDT by radioone
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To: radioone

We are not watching you and there will be no tax increases for anyone making under $250,000 per year.


2 posted on 10/14/2009 3:33:37 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: radioone

It’s about anything posted on any internet site touting anything for which the poster has received compensation, but didn’t reveal that. Excessively meddlesome, and implies a lot of surveillance and investigation of possible connections between posters and a company, candidate, religious group, etc.


3 posted on 10/14/2009 3:38:02 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Wooly

Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia...


4 posted on 10/14/2009 3:40:17 PM PDT by green pastures
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To: Wooly

Eff the nanny-state. I can figure out for myself if a poster touting some product sounds like a paid shill or just an enthusiastic customer. And most blogs, forums, networking sites, etc, that matter will have their own internal systems for handling that sort of thing. People who show up on FR just to tout a product or to endlessly repeat talking points for some political campaign get ejected by the management without any help from the FTC.


5 posted on 10/14/2009 3:42:28 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: radioone

Yes Maam, Yea , Sure, ok,, We Understand...

hey... there’s Peter Pan and the Easter Bunny..


6 posted on 10/14/2009 4:00:56 PM PDT by Eagle50AE (Pray for our Armed Forces.)
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To: radioone

They LIE.


7 posted on 10/14/2009 4:12:20 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is not credible.)
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To: radioone
I don't give a shi!. I will speak my mind and right now it is very very very angry that King Obama is destroying America. We will be a communists third world with everything crumbling around us in a few years. There will be no law except the communists machine.
8 posted on 10/14/2009 4:16:13 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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Where does the Constitution give the FTC this authority,anyway?
9 posted on 10/14/2009 4:18:53 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney
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To: radioone
I think it was the Department of Justice (DOJ) that was the concern.
10 posted on 10/14/2009 5:23:50 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: radioone

Eric Holder and the "Blog Squad"

11 posted on 10/14/2009 5:31:14 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk
Sorry- working link- Eric Holder and Blog Squad link
12 posted on 10/14/2009 5:34:37 PM PDT by opentalk
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