The internet is a mixed blessing. While the potential for limitless information is at the average users fingertips, this comes at the price of countless innacuracies, biases, misinformation, etc.
With blogs reporting everything from underground news to product reviews, questions of outside influence have been hard to address thanks to the annoymity of sponsors and “donators” to blogs. This is all about to change however, as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made it now a requirement for Blogs to publically announce where they receive sponsorship, payment, and freebies from, giving readers an earnest look at who is really contributing to a blogs’ reports.
This is a great success in revealing conflicting interests of large scale, green tech and environmental blogs, as starting December 1st all will be forced to reveal whether any connections with tech companies exist. While trade2save honestly hopes that no controversial relations to tech giants or corrupt e-”recycling” exist, at least the public will now know where they are receiving their info from.
On another note, naturally trade2save doesn’t expect you to believe everything we say without a second thought. Everything should always warrant a second look and opinion, so do research on our claims, and if we ever report something which you can refute let us know! Trade2save is as eager to learn as all our readers are, and if any of our numbers are off we would love to know. Haha it’s really a win-win, since if ewaste is in fact decreasing, our goal of reducing it is being accomplished =D
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