Comments on: Full Disclosure For U.S. Bloggers Who Accept Freebies https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:24:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: aji https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222828 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:24:05 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222828 That’s great news! Good thing when I started my pseudo-sales blog underneath is a disclosure policy just in case.

]]> By: Mom-Friday https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222644 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:05:04 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222644 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 https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222575 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:11:14 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222575 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 https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222566 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:06:53 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222566 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 https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222563 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:34:41 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222563 …… 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.

]]> By: kakusina https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222558 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:44:05 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222558 So glad you referred to your post Why I don’t….. Read it, all of it. I get Margaux, and I get you. I write for a living but I also write just because I love to write and I have things I want to say. I do want to have a venue so I can share my ideas with people. Will be coming out with my blog and yes, there will be no ads and no commercial endorsements.

]]> By: ted https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222555 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:22:38 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222555 MM, Connie is right your site is worth $23,563 or a cool P1.1M,,,but I know you won’t be bought. We love you for that ;-)

]]> By: James https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222554 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:02:35 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222554 I respect MM’s stand on this. I happen to agree with him 100% on full disclosure.

Many people yell and scream about how the “free market” is the solution to all of our woes. And yet, they support secrecy in that market. Things just work better if there is a proper level of transparency.

All that said, I think other bloggers who choose to endorse or review should not be denigrated for doing so … AS LONG AS THEY DISCLOSE.

]]> By: Lilibeth https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222537 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:27:49 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222537 That is why I really love reading your blog. I know that whatever you say is an honest opinion, therefore, truly informative. Also, your recipes are really good!

]]> By: marilen https://www.marketmanila.com/archives/full-disclosure-for-u-s-bloggers-who-accept-freebies#comment-222527 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:12:03 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=9446#comment-222527 MM, your principles are worth expounding and fighting for. That is one of the reasons why we appreciate your blog – it is commercial free, only honest and fun and transparent appreciation of food, and botany and charitable causes and travel, and interesting misc. – all generously shared.

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