Category Archives: Ethics
Is Derren Brown’s split camera trick ethical?
If you live in the U.K., you are probably aware of Derren Brown’s lottery show on Channel 4. My answer to the question above is that Derren Brown should make clear on his website that he is an illusionist and an entertainer.
Here we have a Wall Street Journal columnist whose firm is taking his newspaper columns fresh off the press and running to any company connected to the column’s subject of the week, trying to get them to sign up with said firm—led by the columnist himself!—for PR work.
How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
Who are these people prepared to tell you what they think, but not who they are? What is the mentality that lets them get in our face while wearing a mask?
“Shredding somebody’s character before the entire world and not being held accountable seems like the perfect sting.”
Agreed.
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced a settlement with cosmetic surgery outfit Lifestyle Lift over the publishing of fake consumer reviews on the Internet.
“Under the settlement, Lifestyle Lift will stop publishing anonymous positive reviews about the company to Internet message boards and other Web sites, and will pay $300,000 in penalties and costs to the State of New York.”
Copyright laws threaten our Internet freedom.
Op-Ed in the Financial Times against excessive copyright laws by the Pirate party’s member of the European parliament.
And, of course, I am “pirating” the article of the Financial Times.
Copyright laws threaten our online freedom.
By Christian Engström
Published: July 7 2009 18:10 | Last updated: July 7 2009 18:10
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June 28’s BetFair millionaire story in the News Of The World was totally bogus.
June 28’s BetFair millionaire story in the News Of The World was totally bogus.
2 Internet villains: The Associated Press (AP) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
- The Associated Press (AP)
- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
What should you do when blocked unfairly by Askimet?
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