You can’t print whole books if your costumer asks you to without having permission to do so, you would be a distributor. If you ask the question “if I do something illegal or harmful to someone, should I be take responsibility?” you can get a better answer. You don’t need a third party to take ethical decisions for you. That’s the point of the thread, ad companies have knowledge about harmful ads and refuse to take them down.
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PR_freak@programming.dev 9 months ago
It is the law’s job to prevent and stop scams not of the platform that provides the advertising
If I had a printing shop (not sure how is it called in English) should I be the one who checks that what is written on the handouts is legit? Heck no, I don’t have the means for that.
VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
PR_freak@programming.dev 9 months ago
What if I decide to print my own book? A book that has no copyright at all, should the print shop prevent me from doing so?
As you (hopefully) can see a print shop has no job enforcing the law just as much as an advertiser has to
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes.
Any service you offer professionally should absolutely be reviewed for legality. If you didn’t have the means to comply with laws and regulations you shouldn’t be in business.
And in the case of lots of these ads with malware, it would be like you printing poison ink on handouts, and saying you aren’t to blame.
retrieval4558@mander.xyz 9 months ago
I agree with that in general but think that the scenario changes when you KNOW that you’re doing business with scammers.
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Then why my ad for cocaine and hookers was taken down 😤
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I mean, yes. At Office Depot we had a lot of rules about what we could and could not print for customers.
PR_freak@programming.dev 9 months ago
If someone wants to restrict their services out of willingness it is fine, I just think you can’t be required to do so
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s not just that, there are laws preventing a lot of stuff (not that it’s not commonly happening anyways). For instance a huge thing was never copying anything with Disney characters in it. It’s not like Disney has a special rule only for them, it’s just that Office Depot knows they’re the ones to sue your ass into dust if you get caught. It’s the same for any copyrighted material if it’s going to be distributed, but OD ignores it for the minor stuff because it’s low risk. We just need to laws to protect us from these malicious practices and then we need them to be enforced.