Another issue about the FTC Advertising Guidelines

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Paul Levy <plevy () citizen org>
> Date: October 17, 2009 13:38:22 EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Another issue about the FTC Advertising Guidelines

> Although there are some troubling issues at the edges of the FTC's  
> new revisions of its advertising guidelines to address product  
> endorsements by bloggers, Eric Goldman and I have had an exchange of  
> views about whether one aspect of the revisions runs afoul of  
> section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.  Professor Goldman's  
> posts (saying that section 230 makes advertising companies immune  
> from liability for misleading statements by the bloggers they hire)  
> are here http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/10/do_the_ftcs_new.htm 
>  and here http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/10/a_fuller_defens.htm 
> ; mine, arguing that section 230 will not protect the companies  
> doing the hiring) is here.  http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2009/10/do-the-ftcs-new-advertising-guidelines-run-afoul-of-section-230.html
>
> Paul Alan Levy
> Public Citizen Litigation Group
> 1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20009
> (202) 588-1000
> http://www.citizen.org/litigation



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