Stop Tweeting - or we will take you to court!

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

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Stop Tweeting - or we will take you to court! Watchdog's crackdown on celebrities who plug products on Twitter

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The steady drip drip drip of lost freedoms and liberty.. and the show just rolls on (looking at polls in Oldham East its clear to see people still haven't woken up). Why should a private subject need to state their interests before they speak? These laws are here to protect the stupid from their own stupidity, if Lily Allen tweets a long list of expensive products and I go and buy them all well more fool me - it's my own fault.

Government involving itself with the internet and why? money and control - they don't want to miss out.

Thoughts? should the internet be free from government interference?

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i wouldn't say this is a loss of freedoms as i guess this has been the law for quite a while. However i don't see in principle why this shouldn't be allowed - Twitter in fact is an advert for those celebrities anyway, some set up by record companies etc, who endorse products on advertisements, i don't see why people can't understand that everything they read on twitter is actually coming from their mouth anyway.