Posted on 11/28/2018 12:01:01 AM PST by Freedom of Speech Wins
Big time business!
The DOJ has become the Department Of Jokesters
Too bad they don’t expend this kind of energy on cleaning out the nest of vipers who peddled government influence for millions, destroyed evidence by the ton, tried to rig the 2016 election, tried (and continue to try) to overthrow a president and turn the Republic into a socialist/communist state.
And no, it wasn’t the Russians who did all this.
I originally thought this was more a pile of nothing.
Then I thought, if billions are viewing ads, it is mega millions going to companies and people posting these ads.
The could be very big.
Assuming the DOJ is less than clueless ....again.
Now THERE's a headline that would mean the DOJ is actually doing something.
All is fake...very little real.
If a newspaper sells ad space and posts a paid circulation of 500,000, how is the advertiser supposed to know if they really only distribute 50,000?
How is an advertiser supposed to "do their homework" about Facebook without hacking the platform and stealing their code?
This kind of thing is the reason I simply don’t understand why companies think web ads are worth anything at all. It is trivial to set up a bot to ‘hit’ any webpage. I mean =really= trivial. The only thing I’d pay for would be when someone actually purchased something. Google and Fakebook’s business models are almost entirely based on fraud of this nature.
There is a difference between civil law and criminal law.
Advertisements are purchased by a negotiated contract.
Fraud is a violation of the contract, if it is in the terms of the contract. I don’t see DOJ involvement.
How do you hook into a proprietary system and do that? I’ve purchased ads through these clowns, and I HAVE asked about who and how, and they tell you, “Sorry, we don’t do that.”
Does anyone even respond to online ads for anything but a movie trailer (because they wouldn’t have known enough about the movie otherwise)?
You mean that 3 and a half billion people HAVEN’T viewed the main account’s posting of the Gangman Style video?
Why, that would mean that the music charts and pop pap we are subjected to are a manipulated marketplace...
>>This is Google’s and Facebook’s and countless other internet companies’ business model. If it’s found out they employed bots to pump up hits so they could charge more, it would mean billions of $ in lawsuits.
Not much different than newspapers littering every now and then throwing out free papers to homes for a week or so to artificially boost circulation numbers and charge more for advertising.
You had a choice, you both agreed to each others terms. If you feel they broke the contract, sue them in civil court.
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