Comments on: Our Goverment Gone Wild For Blogs

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:17:11 +0000

I totally agree with you.. Seems to be almost impossible to police the internet justifiably.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:04:55 +0000

They couldn’t control them all, you’re right. It’s just like speeders though. If you get caught then, you get fined and whatever else they decide to do to you, to set an example.

By: 2012 Doomsday Prophecy

2012 Doomsday Prophecy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:02:28 +0000

This would be impossible to control, how can they control all the blogs, sites, social networking sites that are promoting? And the fine is absolutely surprising $11,000!!

By: Bonehead

Bonehead — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:45:40 +0000

uh-oh.

1984 becomes reality more and more every day – but for the most part most people don’t really notice. I’m going to have to agree with Chris in that ultimately it will be handled just like copywrite infringement, and music downloads with the occassional nabbing of an unsuspecting taxpayer to be used as an example.

I like your comparison to product placements in movies and TV – in that ultimately it’s difficult to enforce one without the other.

Thanks too for the beer idea – if it’s free for me – it’s delicious on my blog!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:45:03 +0000

Thank god for your blog, because I didn’t even know this! Here I just wanted to start a fun blog with some friends and don’t even know the new laws! Well as Thomas Jefferson said “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have!”

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:08:31 +0000

What’s up, MOB? This is a fantastic post. As far as this new law goes, I’m not sweating it. There is no way they can enforce this law. There are millions of blogs on the net already, and thousands of new ones each day. This is simply another attempt by politicians to silence their blogger critics. I’m not doing anything differently at ITRH. There is no way I’ll stop saying what’s on my mind. This is still America, and I have the right to say whatever I want.

This law will be enforced the same way they enforce copyright laws on the net. They’ll take potshots and every once in a while they’ll grab some poor sucker, sue his ass broke, and then publicize it all over the place to keep us all scared. Now is the time for us bloggers to band together and exercise our constitutional rights. If we stand together and yell “NO” at the top of out lungs we can win this thing.

I’ll never let my blog turn into some pussy-ass mommy blog. If they want me, let them come and get me. I’m broke, jobless, and have nothing. What else can they take from me? As far as my freedom goes, they’ll never take that no matter what they do. My freedom is inside me. They can’t take that away no matter what they do! The american people need to stop being soft, passive idiots and do what our forefathers did. Do you honestly think George Washington and John Adams would have put up with this shit?

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:36:38 +0000

great post glenn. i agree with some of your issues. in my observations the people here work to hard just to support the government. and they don’t have money to supports themselves. for a country that’s free it’s very expensive to live in America. i had to come to America to be poor. i was better off in my own country but i married American man who is poor but i didn’t married for money. i married for love anyway.

By: jonyx

jonyx — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:46:11 +0000

I wanted to add that I imagine it may not be as big of a deal as it initially sounds. This does sound great when I think about all the sites where people write reviews about a product. It always sounds over enthusiastic and quite obvious that there’s money involved, so maybe it might make reviews appear more geniune…

I don’t know but until stuff actually done and we see a clear picture of what they’re trying to control then meh. Does sound a bit like paranoia….but time will tell

By: jonyx

jonyx — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:27:31 +0000

I’m going to go with the not give a damn card. When you had mentioned posts where you unintentionally endorsed something, I realized I believe I’ve done the same with stuff like Laser Hair Removal and Emla Cream, etc. It just sounds interesting as to how they’d go about breaking down the blogs.

Hell on facebook, twitter the whole purpose is to write a bunch of random nonsense and if includes a product, who gives a fluff? The world makes me laugh, I must say. As long as there’s some control to be had, the people up there will go for it, until the rest of us realize that what those “big” guys are doing are bullshit and they’re no different from the rest of us. They might be a bit better since they seem to excel at taking advantage of people over and over again, without any real repercussions. But when and if everyone just stand on up and say fuck you, you’ll have to shoot us down before we give a damn about what you have to say…I wonder if they’ll just turn and shoot everyone? We all should be able to kick some ass =P

Hmm maybe raging too much and a bit overdramatic! Will be interesting to see what happens, I won’t stop writing as I have been though.

By: Marg

Marg — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:46:06 +0000

Boy that news is kind of scary. There is such a fine line between advertising for a company or a person, and getting a Kickback. Will be interested in the next chapter to this subject.