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Re:Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to mar... by rms on Monday September 07, 2009 @10:41PM (#810170)
Can anyone think of a dumber/more offensive thing done by marketers?
Re:Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to mar... by milkshakes on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:20AM (#810324)
this one pissed a lot of people off, though i thought it was clever.

http://gothamist.com/2007/08/16/hangups_about_s.php

Re:Child-safety software sells kids' IM conversations to mar... by rms on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @01:45AM (#810351)
It's a good example of a different type of offensiveness. There is a definite difference between the offensiveness of a tasteless joke and something that strongly goes against our inbuilt desire to protect children. Also, it hanger ad seems inherently less dumb in that it was designed to generate controversy, because (most) attention is good attention. There is nothing good about the PR generated by the censorship company because there is nothing controversial about it; everyone thinks it is a bad idea.