I know they allow scam adverts because it’s easy money, but why aren’t they held responsible for facilitating obvious scams? You open Edge, there’s 3 “Earn money quick” adverts. On Instagram, every 5 ads, one is a scam.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
      10·
      1 year ago

      … yes? At Office Depot we had a lot of rules about what we could and could not print for customers.

        • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s not just that, there are laws preventing a lot of stuff (not that it’s not commonly happening anyways). For instance a huge thing was never copying anything with Disney characters in it. It’s not like Disney has a special rule only for them, it’s just that Office Depot knows they’re the ones to sue your ass into dust if you get caught. It’s the same for any copyrighted material if it’s going to be distributed, but OD ignores it for the minor stuff because it’s low risk. We just need to laws to protect us from these malicious practices and then we need them to be enforced.

    • Vincent Adultman@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      You 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 taken 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.

    • retrieval4558@mander.xyz
      3·
      1 year ago

      I agree with that in general but think that the scenario changes when you KNOW that you’re doing business with scammers.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 year ago

      Yes.

      Any service you offer professionally should absolutely be reviewed for legality. If you didn’t have the means to comply with laws and regulations you shouldn’t be in business.

      And in the case of lots of these ads with malware, it would be like you printing poison ink on handouts, and saying you aren’t to blame.