The Federal Trade Commission has raised a lot of ire with bloggers today, and some of us are quickly taking to even knocking out podcasts that involve so many mental gymnastics that our heads hurt after we finish.
Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins, Steven Hodson and myself formed a group a while back known as The Cynical Bastards that take on various subjects on our daily podcast that gets under our skin. While we normally rotate which of us is on the show, today’s show was so important that all three of us ended up on it.
What were we discussing that it took all three of us to tackle it? The new FTC guidelines of course.
Mark has said he will post a more in-depth analysis of the situation later today, but for now we wanted to share our podcast with you as we pretty bluntly tackle the subject. And, yes, there is some rough language included, you have been warned.
[...] The Federal Trade Commission released regulations that can best be described as a landgrab to punish small media producers on the web and clamp down on free speech. Before we jump into that, the opinions around the web are piling up, and I thought I’d round those up for you before we jump into my written analysis of the guidelines (though, if you’re interested in listening to the analysis we have here at SiliconANGLE, feel free to listen to this podcast from Sean P. Aune, Steven Hodson and I). [...]
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