Freedom of speech has limits. The same people crying about this regulation would never complain if they reduced this freedom of speech when it comes to pedophiles and other abnormal behaviors.
The internet is currently the flagship of misinformation. While some of you may be honest in your reviews (which I strongly doubt), I doubt you can legitimately build a claim that the affiliate marketing industry isn’t based on lies and deception. Hell, we even purposely hide the links so that people don’t know they’re clicking on an affiliate link, because we want them to think we’re honest.
Now.. you can contest the regulation because it most likely won’t have the desired effects: we all know they can’t effectively police the internet. But please don’t look like a fool arguing about freedom of speech when you’re asking for freedom to bull**** potential customers. Tyranny? If tyranny is the legitimate right for people to have legitimate information on internet, I’m a tyrant.
You are Silly.
and
Wrong.
First, there is no correlation from affiliate marketing to pedophiles, unless you are trying to tell us something? We’ll assume though, for the sake of a “quality” post that there is: Pedophiles lose their right of freedom of speech because they broke the law (and one that should actually be there) This FTC BS is an infringement upon not only our right to freedom of speech, but more importantly an invasion of our privacy, both from personal and business perspectives. All of which Pedophiles lose when they break the law… in case you still might be hanging on to that.
Next, The Affiliate marketing industry isn’t built on lies and deception, corrupt people use the system dis-honestly. Different niches (gaming specifically) have larger problems then most with this, and thats only because the industry is in its infancy and the first people to most always capitalize in new industry? Crooks. This will change.
Please; if you are going to have an opinion, especially one that you feel the need to voice, at least take the time to understand the implications that a ruling such as this has. These small usurps in power and control that governments continually try and make is not to “help” — *remove wool from eyes*
~G.Wilde