Re: the Crackho.com business.Unbelievable! Alaskans, your governor's administration looking out for the State Seal's reputation on the Internet, but is she looking out for you in crisis?
Re: the book deal. How can Palin be paid for this and not have it count as outside revenue? There will be a co-writer (you know, the person who is TRULY writing it) , so how does that figure into the scenario in terms of an ethics violation? Note, too, that it is being marketed by the Christian imprint of HarperCollins...
And they also have Palin's book deal. I thought she couldn't do this while Governor. I wonder if she'll be using state staff and state time to write it?
2600.com magazine got sued by Ford Motor Co. for this same sort of redirection a few years ago. 2600 prevailed in the suit. EFF helped them with the legal fees. Redirecting is (generally) legal on web sites and making it illegal would "break" the Internet.
Details - here.
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Da Google has it cached as of May 1, 2009. search: crackho.com palin
(If you care. It's just mirrors the GINO's website as of that date.)Pfft.
Phil, have you seen this? http://www.komonews.com/news/national/44831167.html
Palin has a book deal and memoir to come NEXT YEAR. Is this not another ethics violation?
Re: the Crackho.com business.Unbelievable! Alaskans, your governor's administration looking out for the State Seal's reputation on the Internet, but is she looking out for you in crisis?
Re: the book deal. How can Palin be paid for this and not have it count as outside revenue? There will be a co-writer (you know, the person who is TRULY writing it) , so how does that figure into the scenario in terms of an ethics violation? Note, too, that it is being marketed by the Christian imprint of HarperCollins...
Phil - I thought you meant Houston, Alaska. Not Houston, Texas!
Shannyn has written a pretty good post about the book deal at Just a Girl from Homer.
Back in November, when the first rumors of a book del came out, I did a DailyKos diary called, "What Can We Title Sarah Palin's Book."
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/18/662611/-What-Can-We-Title-Sarah-Palins-Book
Huffpost has it too:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/12/crackhocom-sarah-palins-n_n_202417.html
And they also have Palin's book deal. I thought she couldn't do this while Governor. I wonder if she'll be using state staff and state time to write it?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/12/sarah-palin-book-deal-mem_n_202658.html
2600.com magazine got sued by Ford Motor Co. for this same sort of redirection a few years ago. 2600 prevailed in the suit. EFF helped them with the legal fees.
Redirecting is (generally) legal on web sites and making it illegal would "break" the Internet.
Pretty good job here of explaining a "redirect". http://techdirt.com/articles/20090513/0109314858.shtml
WV = sicksbac (tee hee)
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