Comment on Why aren't advertisers (Microsoft, Facebook, Google) held responsible for allowing scammy adverts?
VicentAdultman@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou 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.
PR_freak@programming.dev 1 year 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