http://www.barefeetstudios.com/2009/10/06/its-official-bloggers-are-recognized-by-the-ftc/ Internet Literacy for Business: Blogging, Podcasting, Online Video & Social Media Howto, Consulting, Training & Public Speaking Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.barefeetstudios.com/2009/10/06/its-official-bloggers-are-recognized-by-the-ftc/comment-page-1/#comment-3943 Roxanne Darling Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:57:17 +0000 http://www.barefeetstudios.com/?p=1203#comment-3943 There is naturally lots of discussion of this online. Here is <a taget="_blank" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=FTC+AND+bloggers" rel="nofollow">a link to a Twitter search for "FTC + Bloggers"</a> in case you want to follow the conversation there. I am happy to see many of my colleagues welcoming this - as we are talking not about limiting free speech here but regulating commercial speech and influence. We don't like it when politicians get freebies and claim they are not influenced; same goes for bloggers. There is naturally lots of discussion of this online. Here is a link to a Twitter search for “FTC + Bloggers” in case you want to follow the conversation there. I am happy to see many of my colleagues welcoming this – as we are talking not about limiting free speech here but regulating commercial speech and influence. We don’t like it when politicians get freebies and claim they are not influenced; same goes for bloggers.

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