[dccoolgai]

This is the inexorable mean to which heavy government regulation inexorably regresses: The fantasy that large evildoers will lose some of their ill-gotten gains (for the IRS, billionaires privatizing gains and socializing losses... for the FTC, Pepsi being forced to disclose product placement) faces the brick wall of lawyers and lobbyists. So they aim at "softer targets": hassling middle class tax payers and businesses who don't have those lawyers and lobbyists.

[eropple]

Middle-class taxpayers doing payola marketing for very large companies to poison the well towards other middle-class taxpayers, yes.

Nobody thinks a movie is a representative endorsement or review. There is no such distinction for content creators.

This really isn’t hard to understand.