After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge

Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by ditonal on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:39PM (#9299723)

You don't make any case for your argument. If one person is making a car, and another person is looking to buy a car, you are contributing value to society by matching them up to make a transaction.

I don't dispute that advertising can be unethical, or that many of these big tech companies have faced some difficult decisions and debatably have made the wrongs ones. But you can do unethical things in any industry, and advertising is not fundamentally unethical.

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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by joepie91_ on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @08:59PM (#9300925)

Advertising absolutely is inherently unethical - manipulation is a core component of it. That's the difference between an advertisement and a listing.

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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by ditonal on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:04AM (#9301496)

AdWords is basically a listing, directed at the most appropriate audience. You seem to be mixing up advertising and marketing.

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Re:After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge by joepie91_ on Monday April 06, 2015 @02:32AM (#9326898)

It is absolutely not. If it were a listing, it'd list the name and nothing else. The description text is supposed to be persuasive.

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