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EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs
PhilipMarlowe9000 writes in with news of a new EU directive that will take effect in the UK at the end of this year to ban "sock-puppet" reviews or websites, part of an EU-wide overhaul of consumer laws. From the article: "Businesses that write fake blog entries or create whole wesbites purporting to be created by customers will fall foul of a European directive banning them from 'falsely representing oneself as a consumer.' From December 31, when the change becomes law in the UK, they can be named and shamed by trading standards or taken to court. The Times has learnt that the new regulations also will apply to authors who praise their own books under a fake identity on websites such as Amazon."
Regulating the internet usually works incredibly well. This is sure to do everything it is intended to do.
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I know a few politicians I consider sock puppets for other entities. Can we ban them too?
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... at the request of City-TV and Ed the Sock, the CNBC are to ban the import of European TV programming.
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there going to ban The Muppets...
It's going to cost thousands of corporate jobs and eliminate whole departments. What do they expect companies to do? Depend on actual positive feedback from customers?
I just want to say that without Slashdot, I would never have made it to where I am today. Kudos for a great website.
Sincerely,
Captain Burritto
Troll moderation? What the hell? Was someone out there thinking "Hey, my Mother was a corporation, you jerk!"
Ryan Fenton
Europe has got it right. Sites like these should be eradicated from the face of the internet. Please, think of the children!
Apparently there is no "outside the US" to a lot of American Citizens or their Politicians for that matter.
Don't be so ridiculus. Americans are educated to a very high standard of Geograhpy. There's Canada up North, and Mexico down South, go any further and you fall off the edge. Oh yeah, and there's Iraq and France too, that's where the baddies live, mind you have to fall off the edge to get to those places. OK I missed a few places, like China (that's where the Chinese come from), and Australia (which is a giant desert without any intelligent lifeforms) but that, basically is the rest of the world. It's no wonder they are all trying to move here!
... says the AC.
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I don't suppose it matters to you that this law was passed in the UK, which is in fact not part of of the US...
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
Apparently there is no "outside the US" to a lot of American Citizens or their Politicians for that matter.
Don't be so ridiculus. Americans are educated to a very high standard of Geograhpy. There's Canada up North, and Mexico down South, go any further and you fall off the edge. Oh yeah, and there's Iraq and France too, that's where the baddies live, mind you have to fall off the edge to get to those places. OK I missed a few places, like China (that's where the Chinese come from), and Australia (which is a giant desert without any intelligent lifeforms) but that, basically is the rest of the world. It's no wonder they are all trying to move here!
I realized the rest of your post was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, but what's the deal throwing the truth in there as a curve ball?Just kidding.
There should be a Mod 'Retarded'...
How's that for free speech?
Without intelligent lifeforms? We're a country of bloody Einsteins compared to New Zealand!
Comming from a country you wouldnt find on a map, I find this hilarious and true.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Unless you consider Robinson Crusoe's island as a nation. But even then, if he'd called the albatrosses bastards, they'd probably have shat on his head. And quite right too.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
>Corporations claiming human rights is a feature of the US legal system.
Feature, or bug?