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Re:Ghost Boat with Garmin GPS Leads Father-Son Duo to Man Ov... by mynameisvlad on Sunday February 05, 2023 @01:19PM (#34667253)
They certainly can. And people are certainly able to comment on how hamfisted the marketing is. Freedom of speech and all that.
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Re:Ghost Boat with Garmin GPS Leads Father-Son Duo to Man Ov... by brewdad on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:18PM (#34669528)
It’s a corporate blog. What do you expect them to write?

“The features of our GPS allowed a passerby to save an overboard boater. Really any generic GPS unit from Walmart would have done the same though.”

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Re:Ghost Boat with Garmin GPS Leads Father-Son Duo to Man Ov... by mynameisvlad on Sunday February 05, 2023 @04:58PM (#34669982)
As I said, they're certainly free to say whatever they want to say. But people are free to criticize what they chose to write.

A less hamfisted approach would, for instance, remove the quotes from the guy which were clearly prompted by the PR folks at Garmin.

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