etanowitz feed Orlando bloggers: what is your reaction to the FTC saying bloggers need to disclose payments and freebies?
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@etanowitz Really wondering how they will police/enforce the enormous amount of bloggers out there.
@etanowitz It should be required. It keeps everything honest.
@etanowitz I have no problem with it. All it takes is a simple full disclosure sentence.
@etanowitz do the make journalists disclose when they are provided something for free? Seems impossible enforce and a tax money waste.
@etanowitz I don't think my blog fits the category the FTC is talking about, but I for one would want to know about paid reviews.
@etanowitz I dont understand why the FTC is poking their nose inside of blogs. Blogs are unrestrained or unregulated individual opinions.
@etanowitz So what if a blogger gets a product for free? Will these rules apply to sites like cnet? Seems the same to me. The FTC is wrong
@etanowitz I think the reader should determine the merit and value of the reviewers opinion, regardless of source of acquisition,not the FTC
@etanowitz If bloggers want to be considered journalists, full disclosure of payments and freebies should be the norm.
@etanowitz Whatever happened to freedom of speech ? blogs are about individual opinions and now they are getting regulated? insane!
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