An astute person reading past blog posts would quickly find HostJury void of most political commentary... the principles involved prefer to utilize their Twitter feeds as the median of choice for this venue. Occasionally we feel the need to deviate from this prescribed format.

It was announced that US regulators will crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose fees or freebies they get from companies for reviewing products. As most of us are aware, while not necessarily cheapest or fastest, it is still very easy to circumvent the reach of the US government regulators... merely host your site with a company that offers shared hosting on overseas servers that are beyond the reach of said regulators.

While this method of modus operandus would effectively frustrate the long arm of the law, many or most, web savvy types are already aware that the internet's very structure alleviates the need for these silly attempts by real world bureaucrats to impose their lop sided vision of web neutrality onto our online persona.

“The internet polices itself “....

There are many so called web hosting review sites on the web, of which most have quickly acquired a reputation of being quite dishonest... promotional sites for their top hosts who happen to be paying to get there. HostJury on the other hand, has worked to earn it's reputation as an “honest review site”, and with the exception of a few disgruntled hosts, continues to be perceived as such!

And so it is with many products and services on the web... products and services are quickly disseminated by various medians that have evolved including the Twitters, Facebook, MySpace, various Sucksites, and blogs like this one. We have no need for the real world to impose their faulty precepts onto us... Rather we need to impose the contrary!

Picture a world where “they” disclose fees or freebies for promoting products!

With lobbyists and special interest groups vying for your tax dollars...or some special consideration with legislation or policy! And no shortage of corrupt policymakers and politicians all to willing to accommodate and take their offers of “gifts”. Indeed it is bloggers who have exposed a great many of these slush funds extraordinaire

We do not need more of their world in ours... we need more of our world in theirs!

Disclosure: I work for HostJury and I am paid real money... although not always enough