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Re:How Yahoo's Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart by nowarninglabel on Saturday October 16, 2010 @12:09AM (#1797334)
>"It turns out the client at the end of the long pipeline of invoices sold a diet pill, and young women were complaining on MySpace and forums that the pill sometimes caused leakage from their..."

So you thought cause you were a consultant that it didn't matter that you were aggregating people's personal posts from MySpace for the purposes of Big Pharma? Surely, we must draw the ethical line somewhere.

Re:How Yahoo's Latest Acquisition Stole & Broke My Heart by marshallk on Saturday October 16, 2010 @12:17AM (#1797341)
Well, it was aggregating complaints of side-effects, which is a good thing for the pharma company to keep track of if they're going to sell such a drug. But yeah, that's why I felt uncomfortable about working with them, didn't continue and now joke about it publicly. Plus it's odd.