This is just stupid

I as I surfing through blogs on Blog Explosion, I noticed a sidebar link called PayU2blog.

I was intrigued, so I followed the link. From the homepage of this "enterprise":

Make money blogging. Earn quick money by completing easy assignments in your blog. We pay you to mention products, services and companies, on your blog. (emphasis added)

This is disgusting, but I guess it was only a matter of time before someone started trying to bribe bloggers into "adjusting" their content like this. While from an economic standpoint this could be called smart business, from the standpoint of intelligence and freespeech, this is a cancer that will erode the free and open forum of the blogsphere.

If this practice becomes commonplace, no one will be able to trust the content of blogs as their will always be suspicion that the words used were chosen not to convey the thoughts of the author but to line their wallet.

-the Progressive Conservative

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