Bloggers must be licensed

[davemc]

Cool... another law for me to break !!!

ROFL!
Interesting attitude.

 

[LabAnimal]

I doubt this will be accepted!

 

[icyrus]

I cannot for the life of me see where Cara got the information in the article from. None of the related stories I have seen on this issue mention anything at all about licenses, let alone requiring all bloggers to have one.

Unless I am missing something this story is about the FTC having the ability to investigate blogs for misleading their readers by masquerading paid-for advertising as product reviews. And it is still in the proposal stage...

Never mind the facts, I am sure this is a ripe opportunity for any old cretin to jump on that old bandwagon again. Lets see...

America, the new China.

Now if this was China or Iran passing this law CNN and other news networks would be all over it but this is happening in the US so will properly just pass under the radar...

Same old same old.

 

[Sackboy]

I cannot for the life of me see where Cara got the information in the article from. None of the related stories I have seen on this issue mention anything at all about licenses, let alone requiring all bloggers to have one.

Unless I am missing something this story is about the FTC having the ability to investigate blogs for misleading their readers by masquerading paid-for advertising as product reviews. And it is still in the proposal stage...

Never mind the facts, I am sure this is a ripe opportunity for any old cretin to jump on that old bandwagon again. Lets see...





Same old same old.

Agreed, let's see if we can get the paragraph where" licenses" are proposed.

As far as I can see they are just talking about guidelines to stop abuse, which I think is a good idea, especially when it comes to consumer reviews, surveys, and social media forums. There is often a need for more transparency.

 

[d0b33]

My opinion... governments should get it's **** out of the internet, give the democratic power to the people we know better.

 

[Budza]

Politicians must be licensed.

Better still, emasculated.

lol. Land of the free. Brain-free.

it highlights the problems governments face: they don’t like to hear bad things about their policies and actions yet they are often powerless to prevent the criticism leveled at them.

Bleh.

 

[Sackboy]

My opinion... governments should get it's **** out of the internet, give the democratic power to the people we know better.

Well if you are looking for a service or product and two guys have reviewed it positively and they were in fact paid to say so - and you get burnt, then surely it's in your best interest to have guidelines (ignoring the license thing for now)??

 

[cybershark]

The only similar article I can find is this one:
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/200...ck-down-on-undisclosed-sponsored-blogging.ars

And a search of Google news, gets some more results:
http://news.google.com/news/more?um=1&ned=us&cf=all&ncl=df6Qw5bt4a0Wf_M9mpupkEcnHJFIM

 

[d0b33]

Well if you are looking for a service or product and two guys have reviewed it positively and they were in fact paid to say so - and you get burnt, then surely it's in your best interest to have guidelines (ignoring the license thing for now)??

What's new? this happens in traditional media everyday, you trust the US media do you? they are only as fair and balanced as their sponsors allow them to be.

The current way reviews are done on the web work, when someone has been paid we find out easily and there are forums were you can give and read opinions.

Next you'll need a license to register on a forum

 

[Tux]

I cant see them get this past the 2nd amendment.

 

[Sackboy]

What's new? this happens in traditional media everyday, you trust the US media do you? they are only as fair and balanced as their sponsors allow them to be.

The current way reviews are done on the web work, when someone has been paid we find out easily and there are forums were you can give and read opinions.

Next you'll need a license to register on a forum

Where's the license bit?

How do you know they haven't infiltrated the opinion forums as well?

You can't easily know who to trust. I'd rather see disclaimers like: "The goods sent for review were retained by the reviewer as a gratuity" or "Retained by company X on the X forum in order to further their aims and marketing".

 

[d0b33]

Where's the license bit?

How do you know they haven't infiltrated the opinion forums as well?

You can't easily know who to trust. I'd rather see disclaimers like: "The goods sent for review were retained by the reviewer as a gratuity" or "Retained by company X on the X forum in order to further their aims and marketing".

Well if you want a nanny government to protect you from the obvious... good luck with that.

 

[Sackboy]

Well if you want a nanny government to protect you from the obvious... good luck with that.

That's the whole point - it ISN'T OBVIOUS.
You're also arguing that since clever people may see it, there's no need to protect the rest of us (er, them ).