Comments on: Bullshit Review Bloggers Time to Get Honest

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:34:27 +0000

@Extreme John, Just adding my few cents to the above discussion:

There is also the authority and credibility factor. For example if a blogger review a product he has not even tested. If he has some luck and the product is a superhit, thats great. But what if they product or service is found to be scam some months later and that many of the readers who read on the blogger blog and went to try it ended up as being the poor victims?

The blogger will lose his credibility as he has advertised a scam product.
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By: ZXT

ZXT — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:34:26 +0000

I want to know how the FCC will impose this. How can they tell if the blog is paid review or not. Also as this law is only for US bloggers only, they can’t really tell if you are blogging from the US or not unless you say so in your blog.
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By: ashok

ashok — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:14:41 +0000

I have mixed feelings about the FTC getting involved: it’s like you said, I don’t know what they can really do, and I’m scared of increased regulation on the Internet.

At the same time, bloggers – including some very high profile ones – have accepted money and done “reviews” that were some of the most dishonest posts ever written. Moreover, when questioned about this, they defended the practice like as if they had died for our sins. I wrote about this a while ago:

http://www.ashokkarra.com/2007/06/on-blogging-having-an-opinion-and-the-quality-and-trustworthiness-of-your-voice/

I don’t like the idea that the federal government has to get involved in order to demonstrate to people the most basic sense of morality. But if it has to be that way, it has to be that way perhaps.
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By: AntiCelebrity

AntiCelebrity — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:49:29 +0000

That’s pretty cool, and it’ll stop bloggers ‘selling out’.
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By: Sire@WassupBlog

Sire@WassupBlog — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:12:22 +0000

I reckon being one of those bullshit bloggers I should be feeling bad about now, but I don’t.

I’ve done bloody hundreds of paid reviews and I’m pretty sure I’ve never come out and said that a particular product is great unless I knew something about it.

The problem is that most of the time advertisers do not want you to disclose that it is a paid post. Now it seems they have to so it is a good thing.

One question though. Does the FTC have any power outside of the US?
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By: Noah Group

Noah Group — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:00:42 +0000

Some Bloggers are getting hard head they always doing some unethical way to promote their blogs.
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By: Dick@pargazer.com

Dick@pargazer.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:31:21 +0000

How does the FTC hope to monitor this fake review stuff when it’s those “jamesmakesmoneyonline” types of internet schemes that are the real problem? and nothing ever seems to get done about them. Check the FBI statistics for the “nigerian letter” scam, it’s still pulling in millions of dollars from morons who think they can get in on some deposed ruler’s misfortune.
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