With the FTC set to regulate blogging, requiring bloggers endorsing particular products to disclose whether or not they were paid (or otherwise compensated) for said endorsement, some bloggers are wondering about the selective nature of the enforcement.
Well, this disclosure requirement led one smart young blogger,* who doesn’t doesn’t think this is such “a horrible idea,” to muse about other situations where disclosure would be warranted:
I was thinking if bloggers have to disclose what they are compensated for when doing reviews, what about disclosure rules for Obama’s cronies in the UAW who now own 55% of Chrysler or for the bailouts and economic control and political positions that Goldman Sachs gets for their political support?
Well, we do know what they say about sauces and geese.
*IN CASE THE FTC IS READING THIS, that smart young blogger is my nephew Mitchell. And his parents have hosted me on numerous occasions, providing hospitality and meals, with his mother recently showing me around Denver and his father, when they lived in Nashville, taking me to the Bluebird Café.