Posted on 07/03/2009 9:28:20 PM PDT by FromLori
Online advertising's biggest players to government: Please stay out of our business. Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, along with a host of other advertising, agency and marketer associations, took another step in pressing their case that the government doesn't need to regulate the collecting of data for ad-targeting purposes by search engines, websites, advertisers and ad networks. They've crafted their own set of rules in the hope of heading off potential regulation in Congress.
For months, a wide-ranging group of marketers, portals, publishers and ad networks represented by industry groups -- such as the Interactive Advertising Bureau, the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Direct Marketing Association and the Association of National Advertisers -- have been working on "self-regulatory principles," which were released today. They require sites to provide prominent disclosure of who is collecting information and the ability to opt out, inform consumers of any change to a site's privacy policy, and offer special protections for sensitive data connected to health and financial issues or children, among other things.
The Counsel of Better Business Bureaus and the Direct Marketing Association will develop a compliance and enforcement mechanism for the industry rules, which would go into effect in 2010. The effective date would be preceded by a public-information campaign to which 500 million online ad impressions have been committed.
The groups also sought to draw a bright line between the tracking activities of, say, Yahoo or Google and internet service providers such as AT&T or Charter Communications, some of whom were caught red-handed tracking consumers with little or no notice last summer through now-defunct web-tracking firm NebuAd.
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Their executives and employees voted for Obeyme now they want mercy from their stupidity.
They just want an exemption.
Its OK, and necessary, for the Govt to be onerous against everyone else.
AOL is still around?
You wet your bed, now sleep in it.
not all big corporations are capitalist supporters, they all want a monopoly with government protection. In a free market, some of these corporations wouldn’t survive
These plastic folks love socialism until it gets real. Then, when it comes after them...not so much. It’s for the little people - not them.
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MSFT has been against national sales taxes on internet sales as has Yahoo! - Amazon has fought with New York state over sales taxes too - and won.
Obama is an ignorant fool (LOL! - Yes he is!) to think he can intimidate Bill Gates after Clinton/Reno sued Microsoft
MSFT produce software for the Defense Dept and FBI and the CIA
Obama will create a firestorm in 2010 and in 2012 if he attempts to play GM-Chrysler with the internet wizards
Obama does intend on controlling internet corporations as Hillary had said she would
A bridge too far
Gates has already stated that he will move MSFT from the USA if Obama attempts his Commie tricks
Bump for smart business — telling Obamanation to mind his own business and not theres!
>Obama will create a firestorm in 2010 and in 2012 if he attempts to play GM-Chrysler with the internet wizards
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>Gates has already stated that he will move MSFT from the USA if Obama attempts his Commie tricks.
I would almost like to see him try. I think that’s one of the few things that would work to the people’s advantages, messing up all the internet/computer corporations would DEFINITELY get a huge portion of citizens right there that they could disseminate info to.
The truth is, it seems, to politicians what sunlight is to most vampires.
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“not all big corporations are capitalist supporters, they all want a monopoly with government protection. In a free market, some of these corporations wouldn’t survive”
Historically speaking, corporations are often the free-markets own worst enemy. To some extent, I understand when liberals are angered by corporate activity. At times corporation appear entirely selfish and without any concept of competition. But I suppose that is the nature of power and if the republican party ever address that rationally, while supporting the free-market....I’ll be a happy man.
Krupp was one of Hitler’s biggest corporate toadies and GE is one of Obama’s.
Fascists destroy the suck-up capitalists last.
Many of them know this so they are always ready to take the money and run.
But with a free America destroyed,where are they gonna run to?
The best example of that is Wall Street and AIG.
Those corporations cratered the US economy thus putting 0bama into office
I blame the Greenspan too and the Democrats trying to give everybody a house
But most blame is on Wall Street corporations such as Goldman Sachs
I’d almost wager to say if the conservative movement wholesale divested from corporations that were facist in nature or overtly supporting liberal causes, we’d ultimately remove the worst part of the democratic party.
I think it’s feasible, too.
First of all, we’d have to get educate our base (or the country) throroughly on investment, especially concerning retirement acccounts e.g IRA’s.
Secondly, we’d have to blacklist the obvious offenders and then make them public targets...by both selling their shares and boycotting them till they maintain a neutral stance in the market.
Third, we target the media hard. Those that are overtly bias must be crushed. Follow number 2.
I think those three things would remove much of our opposition. If well organized...
The snowball effect of bad mortgages definitely has a place within the corporate negligence we see now-a-days. These corporations are federally-insured, and to some level and degree must maintain a sembelance of responsibility.
If they were corporation without a tax-payer backing them, then I would say the hell with them. But given the nature of our monetary system, they acted improperly.
I often wonder how these credit rating companies got by unscathed. Much of the assets bought and swapped around were interpetted to be of value, but ended up more like a bad night with a dieased hooker.
The problem is the average conservative cares not a wit for Big Government and thus eschews dealing with the men with the guns to make them slaves.
They have life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness that God gave them and are in denial of the enemies of said God.
Fascists think in centuries and Capitalist think in fast returns—blind to the fact that the US Constitution that blesses such All American behavior has been put in the Leftist shredder files.
Conservatives must,like Liberals,involve themselves in every aspect of the hated Big Government or they are bringing knives to a gunfight.
The ‘94 GOP tried and lost their souls to the temptations of the aphrodisiac of pork and power—an evil noxious swill the Democrats have always called sweet home cooking.
Hard to do for the truly conservative—it's like diving into the sewer right after bathing.
[Obama does intend on controlling internet corporations as Hillary had said she would]
Yes, I worry about that. Knew about what Gates said.
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I back Bill Gates on his statement that he will move Microsoft from the greedy grasping grip of Obama and his brownshirt gestapo
Obama has already said he will stop American capitalist corporations from leaving his taxing and NAZI Socialist control
I will be there to click the key that darkens the White House
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