Group Asks FTC To Go After Fake Blogs
The consumer advocacy group Commercial Alert has asked the FTC to investigate "stealth" marketing campaigns, where companies create and maintain blogs that appear to be from ordinary people but are in fact created by CORPORATE MARKETING DEPARTMENTS for the purpose of selling products, among other tactics.
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The only problem I have with this is the implication that I'm not smart enough to determine whether a product (like the Nokia 6010 available from T-Mobile) being marketed to me. I don't need an agent of the federal government to determine whether I'm being lied to (about the wonderful features of the Nokia 6010 from T-Mobile). If that lying causes me harm, then there should be some form of redress (but there wouldn't be any harm in buying the Nokia 6010 from T-Mobile).
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