The truth about Openweb

MickeyD said:
Thinking has started!

If it is published on any public site or in any form of media, then they have jurisdiction...

On what grounds?
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Well, you're not allowed to advertise goods that are not as described. As a first stop I'd question whether their uncapped service is, in fact, top-class. It's advertised as unshaped - so if any of the customers here on it get shaped, that's already in breach of the ASA's rules.
 
Sinbad said:
Well, you're not allowed to advertise goods that are not as described. As a first stop I'd question whether their uncapped service is, in fact, top-class. It's advertised as unshaped - so if any of the customers here on it get shaped, that's already in breach of the ASA's rules.
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kianm said:
They are not my opinions, it's the truth.
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Then how come OW still has thousands of customers?
They don't seem to think it is the truth.
How come OW is still making enough money to advertise?

Maybe MyBB should also stop covering APPLE. Cos we all know how unethical that company is.
Maybe they should look out for us and not promote any hardware that breaks.
Cos all hardware breaks sooner or later.
 
LazyLion said:
Then how come OW still has thousands of customers?
They don't seem to think it is the truth.
How come OW is still making enough money to advertise?

Maybe MyBB should also stop covering APPLE. Cos we all know how unethical that company is.
Maybe they should look out for us and not promote any hardware that breaks.
Cos all hardware breaks sooner or later.
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Gary I think the question of why MyBB accepts paid OW advertising but not paid CW advertising is a valid one.
Is there some kind of exclusivity agreement in place? Contractual stuff? All valid possibilities that would probably silence all of this.
 
Sinbad said:
Well, you're not allowed to advertise goods that are not as described. As a first stop I'd question whether their uncapped service is, in fact, top-class. It's advertised as unshaped - so if any of the customers here on it get shaped, that's already in breach of the ASA's rules.
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Rethink...

ASA will have jurisdiction if it appears in an advertisement. Partner content and MyBB articles are NOT advertisements but fall under editorial comment, which ASA does not control.
 
MickeyD said:
Rethink...

ASA will have jurisdiction if it appears in an advertisement. Partner content and MyBB articles are NOT advertisements but fall under editorial comment, which ASA does not control.
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Are they paid for? Because then they'd be advertorial? And surely that falls under their ambit?
 
Details of the "partnership" that leads to this being partner content?
 
Sinbad said:
Gary I think the question of why MyBB accepts paid OW advertising but not paid CW advertising is a valid one.
Is there some kind of exclusivity agreement in place? Contractual stuff? All valid possibilities that would probably silence all of this.
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Sure it's a valid question, but one that I cannot comment on, as I simply have no idea.
I also would not like to comment on it, as I am massively biased in the matter.
 
So they can literally lie on the editorials and pay the platform upon which it appears to silence comment about it.

Nice.
 
LazyLion said:
Sure it's a valid question, but one that I cannot comment on, as I simply have no idea.
I also would not like to comment on it, as I am massively biased in the matter.
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I understand that, and I'm not asking you the question.

Goes back to my point that you should not be advising people to take out adverts on myBB as you have no idea what the criteria are for advertising being accepted.
 
StevenC said:
So they can literally lie on the editorials and pay the platform upon which it appears to silence comment about it.

Nice.
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A newspaper that allowed that would very quickly lose its reputation for integrity - and I guess the concern is that that could also happen here?
 
MickeyD said:
No, they can be held accountable to the (?) Press Council or even the DMMA (or whatever they are called now)..
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Is myBB a member of any press councils/ombud agreements?
 
imranpanji said:
/Disclaimer : MickeyD seems to have acquired shares in freesmileys.org
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