"Sid Schweiger" wrote in message
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It's not the FCC, but the Federal Trade Commission, which has jurisdiction.
15 USC Sec. 52. http://www.ftc.gov/temp/chapter_2.htm#Sec.%2052

I wasn't asking you, I was asking Mr. Know-It-All.

PLEASE DON'T FEEL THE TROLLS!!!!

Excuse me, Sid, but as you've asked in a newsgroup, it seems to me that there's
nothing which prevents me from responding.

Further, troll or not, I think this guy has a respectable mission....the amount of
quackery, deception and outright larceny which passes for legitimate advertising
needs to be stopped, whether it's weight-loss pills, invention patent acquirers or
FCC spectrum lottery shares (of course, where is the FTC with the new "Medicare
discount" cards that are being advertised now?).

The only trouble with FTC regs is that a complaint, or several, need be launched
before they'll take action. Not that I would expect otherwise, since a more
agressive effort would be prohibitively expensive, probably treads on free-speech
guarantees, and still wouldn't make much of a difference. It's still up to the
consumer to be at least a little cautious before plunking down money for a dubiously
useful product or service. But I applaud anyone who would make an effort to collect
(and, I would assume, act on) these abuses so as to make fraudulent and deceptive
advertisers more likely to see the scrutiny of the FTC.
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Excuse me, Sid, but as you've asked in a newsgroup, it seems to me that
there's nothing which prevents me from responding.

No, there isn't, but I wanted Mr. Know-It-All to defend his position. You
didn't need to help him out.

"Sid Schweiger" wrote in message
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Excuse me, Sid, but as you've asked in a newsgroup, it seems to me that
there's nothing which prevents me from responding.

No, there isn't, but I wanted Mr. Know-It-All to defend his position. You
didn't need to help him out.

Well, okay, but I thought the purpose of newsgroups were, among other goals, to help
each other out. But I now see that the protestor is looking at programming which,
depending on the pitch, isn't covered by FTC mandates....given what passes for
entertainment programming these days, listeners are on their own to determine the
efficacy or prudence in adopting practices or strategies heard on air (a hint,
though.....it's worth every penny paid).
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