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NEW YORK The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is demanding social networking site for kids Webkinz stop putting ads on its site.
Webkinz.com has promoted itself as being ad-free. But a complaint by a parent earlier this week alerted the CCFC that an ad for the new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie has appeared on the site.
On hearing the news, Susan Linn, CCFC’s director and a psychologist at Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston, launched a letter-writing campaign urging parent company Ganz to pull the ad.
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