More accurately, the FCC has put forward a new series of guidelines designed to encourage fair and transparent product reviews online - including an attempt to regulate "payola" on websites and blogs. The possible consequence of breaking those rules? A fine of up to $11,000 (more than £6,800 in real money).Using the logic that whatever happens in the States is bound to happen over here - particularly since our government loves anything that allows them to have a pop at bloggers - I'd like to be ahead of the curve and announce who my advertisers are. Put simply, there aren't any. And I don't have links to any organisation that tells me what to write. Everything on here is what I want to say. For what it is worth,* this blog is entirely independent.
*Which in financial terms is nothing; I have literally not made a penny from this blog.
Some of us are simply in the business of blogging for a say in what we believe to be right. I am also an "indpendent blogger"... :)
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