Comments on: Full Disclosure For U.S. Bloggers Who Accept Freebies

By: aji

aji — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:24:05 +0000

That’s great news! Good thing when I started my pseudo-sales blog underneath is a disclosure policy just in case.

By: Mom-Friday

Mom-Friday — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:05:04 +0000

this is great news indeed MM…and I respect your stand on blogs being “commercialized”, but the “Ad-woman” in me can’t help but encourage you to accept some endorsements if you really use and believe in their products to begin with…sayang e! :D

By: Libay

Libay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:11:14 +0000

MM, I commed you for your high moral standards and ethical behavior. If only our politicians just have the same belief as yours, this country will be on the road to progress. You see, everything boils down to personal values. (Is my discussion a bit off track? :))

By: emsy

emsy — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:06:53 +0000

I was only able to read the article in full today, and I just realized that it didn’t say how they will actually implement the Full Disclosure rule, since it seems that will definitely rely on the bloggers themselves. Unless I read it wrong, which is possible, the FTC is only relying on the honesty of the bloggers in terms of declaring whether they received goodies from a certain brand/company. And once they disclose that they DID accept a gift from a company, do they disclose that in terms of sending an email or some sort of correspondence to FTC or whatever governing body, or will a simple sentence in the blog entry suffice? And what if they DON’T do it? Will their website be banned from search engines or will the domain itself be closed down? I guess the idea behind the new rule is great…but the devil is in the details, really.

By: millet

millet — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:34:41 +0000

…… and this is one of the major reasons why i totally love this blog – no secrets, no false endorsements of anybody/anything, and no gentle/rude persuasions to buy/try anything.