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The FTC should trust in web-ocracy

Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Posted by Philip Buxton
The Federal Trade Commission wants power over bloggers who fail to declare their commercial interests a move that fails to recognise the ruthlessly democratic nature of content popularity on the web and the ‘connectedness’ of its consumers. Yes, as a journalist, a failure to disclose a conflict of interest was not just wrong from a legal [...]