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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M. and the guys at GetSatisfaction.com where they have "community powered support for Technorati".
Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.
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Monday, 05 October 2009
Obama's FTC takes aim at bloggers
The goal of an overarching Federal government is to control every miniscule aspect of our lives. President Obama, via the auspices of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and the Federal Trade Commission, has now extended that reach to testimonials and endorsements made by bloggers. FTC regulations issued today require that any blogger who writes about a product or service must disclose his relationship with its makers and advertisers.
Failure to comply can result in fines of up to $11,000 per violation.
So if I get a coupon for 1/2 off my dinner at a restaurant and I write about eating there I'm breaking the law unless I prominently state the dollar value of that coupon? But Hollywood can make movies featuring Coke or Ford cars and they don't have to disclose anything?
It's another example of how sooner or later everyone is a criminal. That way an army of unaccountable petty bureaucrats can justify their existence by targeting folks at whim. They can't possibly police millions of online posts and comments, so enforcement will be selective and arbitrary.
Wanna bet that conservative blogs will receive a higher level of scrutiny?
And what about a really egregious online problem that actually adversely affects consumers? I'm talking of course about spam. Curiously the FTC isn't much interested in regulating the penis enlargement guys or the make money fast morons or the internet pharmacy shills. Finding and prosecuting those guys would be hard. Whereas clubbing Chris for praising his free meal gets the long arm of the FTC home before dinner with another "win" to celebrate.
(Via Memeorandum)
Posted at 17:04 by Chris Wysocki
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