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.'"

Comments

Parochial retards.

[Ralph Spoilsport]

As if some two bit dumbass from the middle of nowhere can make a law that matters to a some company in Finland.

When will these dorks ever get a clue?

RS

Re:Thanks!

[KlomDark]

Mormon? Moron? Ah, what's one letter?

Fucking Jesus in a UFO throwing out three dollar bills. You are all in a retard cult.

Re:Thanks!

[Penguinisto]

As a former Utahn, and a non-mormon, I can back your statement up. I sincerely doubt the AC you replied to know WTF he is even thinking of talking about.

If the AC was instead trying to paint it as "gentiles" (the LDS term) being given inadequate medical care due to the predominant religion of the doctors and staff, he's still full of shit. I've had zero problems with obtaining solid, professional health care at any IHC facility (Intermountain Health Care is the non-profit institute which owns LDS Hospital among many others), or any other medical establishment that I cared to go to while living in Salt Lake City. Also, my s/o had to have surgery done at Huntsman Cancer Center last year due to suspicion of a lymph node tumor (turned out to be benign). She's about as Mormon as I am (roughly about as Mormon as The Pope would be), and we experienced nothing but the highest standards in care and in staff/patient relations.

I got plenty of valid complaints about LDS domination in Utah (e.g. practically tearing apart downtown SLC and nearby Sugarhouse for *cough*money-grab*cough*- development projects), but medical care and professionalism is certainly not one of those complaints.

/P