Comments on: Google Ads for Cheap Airline Tickets Actually Phishers? http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/adsense-ads-for-cheap-airline-tickets-actually-phishers/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:47:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mike C http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/adsense-ads-for-cheap-airline-tickets-actually-phishers/#comment-1605 Mike C Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:40:28 +0000 /?p=519#comment-1605 I would just like to say that i think DavidR is a knob. Thats like saying that kids that bully for milk money at school should be tried as terrorists in federal courts, because the child being bullied has fear or is in a state of terror. It is people like you who generalize specific situations and blow things out of proportion that cause the US to be filled with people who sue over coffee being too hot and sue McDonald's for making them obese. Sometimes the common sense has to fall on the consumer. If someone is blindly going to enter credit card information and send checks and money orders blindly all over the country than perhaps the fault is not with GOOGLE, some of the fault may fall on their shoulders. People can get a good deal on a DVD Player purchased out of the trunk of someone's car, but would you assume that they have a good return policy? Would you expect to be valued as a customer? To use your "cab" example, google doesn't advertise the fact that it accepts ads from "phishers" or "scammmers" or anything like that. So saying that you'd be advertising that you'd be looking for bank robbers is just not an accurate comparison. Just about any organization can purchase banner space on just about any banner service they choose. It is advertising space, and I don't believe it to be Google's responsibility to investigate each company who applies for this banner space. Why would google be be any more liable than anyone else? When's the last time Wal-mart strip searched someone for buying a crow bar? I would just like to say that i think DavidR is a knob. Thats like saying that kids that bully for milk money at school should be tried as terrorists in federal courts, because the child being bullied has fear or is in a state of terror. It is people like you who generalize specific situations and blow things out of proportion that cause the US to be filled with people who sue over coffee being too hot and sue McDonald’s for making them obese. Sometimes the common sense has to fall on the consumer. If someone is blindly going to enter credit card information and send checks and money orders blindly all over the country than perhaps the fault is not with GOOGLE, some of the fault may fall on their shoulders.

People can get a good deal on a DVD Player purchased out of the trunk of someone’s car, but would you assume that they have a good return policy? Would you expect to be valued as a customer?

To use your “cab” example, google doesn’t advertise the fact that it accepts ads from “phishers” or “scammmers” or anything like that. So saying that you’d be advertising that you’d be looking for bank robbers is just not an accurate comparison. Just about any organization can purchase banner space on just about any banner service they choose. It is advertising space, and I don’t believe it to be Google’s responsibility to investigate each company who applies for this banner space. Why would google be be any more liable than anyone else? When’s the last time Wal-mart strip searched someone for buying a crow bar?

]]> By: DavidR194 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/adsense-ads-for-cheap-airline-tickets-actually-phishers/#comment-1595 DavidR194 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:27:44 +0000 /?p=519#comment-1595 If "Terrorism" is causing "terror" or fear in a population to achieve a political goal, and these scammers are causing people to "fear" purchasing tickets to use airlines (a critical infrastructure of US transportation) and thereby contributing to financial destruction of the airlines, doesn't that make them "Terrorists" ??? And isn't aiding and abedding Terrorists illegal in the USA ??? Google must have some really sharp lawyers for their company to be able to openly help terrorists and thumb their corporate noses at the US Government in the midst of a "war or terrorism". If “Terrorism” is causing “terror” or fear in a population to achieve a political goal, and these scammers are causing people to “fear” purchasing tickets to use airlines (a critical infrastructure of US transportation) and thereby contributing to financial destruction of the airlines, doesn’t that make them “Terrorists” ??? And isn’t aiding and abedding Terrorists illegal in the USA ??? Google must have some really sharp lawyers for their company to be able to openly help terrorists and thumb their corporate noses at the US Government in the midst of a “war or terrorism”.

]]> By: DavidR194 http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/adsense-ads-for-cheap-airline-tickets-actually-phishers/#comment-1594 DavidR194 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 08:58:39 +0000 /?p=519#comment-1594 And why exactly are our slithering scum politicians not getting laws passed that hold Google Inc. responsible for participation in such activity ??? I bet if I ran a taxi service and advertised that I accepted any customers with no qualifications whatsoever (hint...hint...I have no problem serving as a getaway driver for bank robbers!!) I would be arrested in no time flat as a conspirator or accomplice. How is Google any different ? And why exactly are our slithering scum politicians not getting laws passed that hold Google Inc. responsible for participation in such activity ??? I bet if I ran a taxi service and advertised that I accepted any customers with no qualifications whatsoever (hint…hint…I have no problem serving as a getaway driver for bank robbers!!) I would be arrested in no time flat as a conspirator or accomplice. How is Google any different ?

]]> By: Michael http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/adsense-ads-for-cheap-airline-tickets-actually-phishers/#comment-1576 Michael Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:18:34 +0000 /?p=519#comment-1576 I can not help but notice the Google ADsense feed on the page listed nothing but Discount Airline Tickets. Perhaps one of them is a phisher? I can not help but notice the Google ADsense feed on the page listed nothing but Discount Airline Tickets. Perhaps one of them is a phisher?

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