"“Fake” Republican Obamacare Site To Remain Up"

[applegrove]

“Fake” Republican Obamacare Site To Remain Up

by Hunter Schwartz at BuzzFeed

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/fake-republican-obamacare-site-to-remain-up

"SNIP................................


There are currently no plans to shut down the California Republican Assembly caucus’ website about the state’s healthcare exchange that is being called misleading by some Democrats.

The website, coveringhealthcareca.com, has a similar URL to California’s official health care exchange website, CoveredCA.com, and mimics an official site in its look. It features frequently asked questions about health care law and has links to articles critical of the law and its rollout.

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The California Affordable Care Act prohibits websites from “the use of a domain name that is confusingly similar to another entity.” Ten websites that imitated California’s health care exchange website were sent cease-and-desist letters by the attorney general’s office in November.

Paul Song, executive chairman of Courage Campaign, a progressive advocacy group, said the 10 websites shut down earlier this year asked for users’ information.




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[applegrove]

1. The GOP Squats!!!

[Eleanors38]

4. That imagery suggests a GOP rationale...

Once someone throws on the light and reveals 'em drunk & in the corner pissing the ficus plant, they may as well drop trou and take a shit, too. Out of consistency, you know?

[applegrove]

5. Thanks for expanding the picture I painted. I knew someone would get the imagery.

[libodem]

2. What a dirty trick

That's rotten. Have they no shame?

[Niceguy1]

3. they even have

a prominent link to the covered healthcare website on their main page.

[libodem]

6. But it must be easily overlooked

It is hidden in plain sight so it remains deceptive. Then they may claim plausible deniability (I don't know if that is not a word or if it's just spelled wrong)

[Niceguy1]

7. even the most average person could figure it out

my favorite website name trick was whitehouse.com which used to be a porn site



http://mrsircy.blogspot.com/2008/02/whitehousecom-was-porn-site-until-2004.html?m=1


I could only imagine the outcry if it had happened to our president.