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Utah Bans Keyword Advertising
Eric Goldman writes "Last month, Utah passed a law banning keyword advertising. Rep. Dan Eastman, the Utah legislator who sponsored the law, believes competitive keyword advertising is the equivalent of corporate identity theft, causing searchers to be (in his words) 'carjacked' and 'shanghaied' by advertisers. He also takes a swipe at the EFF, dismissing its critique of the law as 'criticism from the fringes.'"
you win one (1) free internet
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Physics is nothing like religion. If it was, we'd have an easier time trying to raise money!
Just when having 'mormon' was really starting to pay off ..
In Soviet Utah, Mormons call YOU a fringe group. OK, that was rude, but it sure was funny when South Park did it.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
I hate politicians, but I hate advertisers, too. Ack! (head explodes)
They have already proven they can handle themselves with difficult governments.
First Google China edition
Now Google Utah edition.
So, who will be first to purchase AdWords for "Dan Eastman?"
I just googled him and got no advertisements, so looks like he's even cheaper than the average politician!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Utah is one of the places used to simulate Mars landings.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Rep. Dan Eastman...believes competitive keyword advertising is the equivalent of corporate identity theft, causing searchers to be (in his words) 'carjacked' and 'shanghaied' by advertisers.
Well, at least he's not appropriating the name of an entire city to make his point.
So a mormon car dealer?
Umm... if returning ads based on the search terms you type into the very same site is spyware.... please start fixing the problem by removing your eyeballs (spy devices).
Software patents delenda est.
Someone put an Adword in on google for "Douchebag" and it linked to http://www.daneastman.com/
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The law is supposed to help relieve the congestion in the tubes. As you all know the ads can clog the tubes like nobody's business.
Hell is other people - Jean-Paul Sartre
Utah has the Internet? When did that happen... ;)
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You know what they say... regulating the internet is like teaching a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the internet.
Software patents delenda est.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Logical Design Solutions uses the law to stop mormons from advertising.
70% of statistics are made up.
Perhaps "Pontiac" should point to Chief Pontiac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Pontiac or Pontiac, Michigan http://www.pontiac.mi.us/history/index.htm, both of which existed about a century or more before the General Motors company.
Or perhaps Google should use some computer to point to all those links, and rank them somehow in a way that seems useful to Google users.