FTC: Bloggers Must Reveal When Paid for Reviews

[viometrix]

articles like this suck. it takes a good thing and spoils i. period.

* this was paid for by anonymous paid bloggers of america*

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]ryanegeiger[/nom]Yahtzee (ZP) always talks about whether or not he has to pay for a game or gets it sent to him... it's part of his schtick. I doubt he get's paid by anyone other than the company he works for seeing as how he often reviews games that aren't even being sold anymore. That and who would pay to have every flaw in their game ripped out and shown bleeding to the world?[/citation]
Negative reviews can be sponsored by competition, can't they?

 

[virtualban]

[citation][nom]VioMeTriX[/nom]articles like this suck. it takes a good thing and spoils i. period.* this was paid for by anonymous paid bloggers of america*[/citation]
This (if serious) would be a perfect example.

VioMeTriX, thank you.

 

[precariousgray]

Next on the agenda: having that delicious-looking burger you see on [insert fast food chain here]'s menu look more like the sad, soppy, smushed thing you actually receive when you hand over your cash.

 

[antilycus]

IMPOSSIBLE TO ENFORCE... USELESS LAW NOTHING WILL CHANGE

 

[captaincharisma]

man, i cannot wait till this blogging fad is over. it is hard to find good accurate news these days when anyone who is scratching there nuts reports on some news story which has bad punctuation, grammar, and tons of mistakes

 

[lejay]

I tu hatte wen theire many mistakes

 

[reklatsa]

Why anyone would want to read the babblings of bloggers is quite beyond me. I have never succumbed to peer pressure or purchased a product on the opinion of an opinionated twat or twit.

Capitalism is corrupt to the core...The FTC ruling is tokenism; some wily lawyer will find a way around it and normal corporate agenda viewing will be resumed for the Borgs.

 

[calmarten]

Seems to be further proof that America is a communist state controlled by large commercial interests now. I mean Why shouldn't we single out bloggers or any other group and apply laws and rules only to them. Letting other commercial advertising entities operate by other rules .Not only that but lets give them a vague title like blogger so we can punish anyone who might fit that vague description. How exactly does this apply to a sails person who receives a commission for a sail. How is it fair to only apply this to one section of advertising. When is the last time you saw any advertisement that "disclosed when they receive payment for a post or review". If this kind of rule is going to exist it should be applied to all advertising all the time not just to bloggers. looks to me like what it does do is reduce the ease of low cost/amateur advertising. Giving large corporations more control over information. If this is such a need then is should be applied across all mediums like television, radio, newspaper, and any other form of advertising.

 

[demonhorde665]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]man, i cannot wait till this blogging fad is over. it is hard to find good accurate news these days when anyone who is scratching there nuts reports on some news story which has bad punctuation, grammar, and tons of mistakes[/citation]


hmmm you mean sort of like tom's lately? LOL ( i couldn't resist)

 

[anamaniac]

Toms seems to be doing it right.
They generally tell us when they get something for free, and generally from who. I think that's all it takes.

 

[Manos]

About freaking time is you ask me. Hopefully that will shut the flappers of some pathetic fnboys, killing gaming for the past few years in their own way.

 

[captaincharisma]

i know gaming news has gotten too biased toward one console these days

 

[Guest]

If a company is paying someone to reveiw a product and providing their opinion about the product on there blog, i think most of the time the blogger states in someway thats whats going on. What would be the difference of going out and buying the stuff you like and making a reveiw of it? You are not going to disclose that you are being paid off cause you are not and then why should i also say i went out and bought it as well and disclose my own personal income or some of it?
Maybe they should try to start at in licensing of such services and patrions of blogging for those reasons and work down into fines and etc.

Honestly you'd think there should be also other services at there to help these things out, but hard to find. And to try to do things yourself is just as frutile as to determine if the blog made is a real one or not.
Just seems mainly another way to keep those with intergrity to industry down while any corporate or government interests maintain its own control. Cause any company now that employess people to do this will, will take this as a chance to further limit those who can "test" products for free.
Thanks FTC. (not really, but then again, some posts here have made of good point also for the ruling for bloggers as well) [Need a new way to say thanks ]