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>I don't find his affiliate marketing play shady. >Forbes uncovered 11 such sites, all created in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Radvinsky and his Glenview,

>I don't find his affiliate marketing play shady. >Forbes uncovered 11 such sites, all created in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Radvinsky and his Glenview, Illinois-based business, Cybertania. They included Password Universe, which, in 2000, published a link directing web users to a site claiming to offer pedophiles more than 10,000 “illegal pre-teen passwords.” In 1999, a site called Working Passes had a link for “the hottest underaged hardcore” containing 16-year-olds. Also in 2000, another site, Ultra Passwords, promised a link containing “the best illegal teen passwords” and “the hottest bestiality site on the web.”

vmception 5y ago
He nailed the SEO game while ya’ll were buying books If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady
- amazingman 5y ago
  > He nailed the SEO game while ya’ll were buying books[.] If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady You should double check your ethics algorithms. It is absolutely “shady” to advertise child rape for profit, regardless of whether or not you intend to ultimately make good on that advertisement.
  - vmception 5y ago
    Something to keep perverts busy instead of letting them find what they were already looking for If the affiliate sites were actually intentionally providing that kind of media I would call it very shady to take affiliate dollars from them
    - amazingman 5y ago
      If they were intentionally providing that media they would be criminals, not “shady”.
      - vmception 5y ago
        accepting affiliate money from criminals is shady the criminals are criminals this wasn’t a debate it would be debatable whether that would make the affiliate payment transactions criminal, but that ship has sailed as its too late, which only makes it shady, if that media was being intentionally provided if not, then not shady easy calculus for me
        amazingman 5y ago
        It’s fine for you to have a custom internal definition of a word, but it’s counterproductive for you to use it to offer veiled praise for patent misconduct. Edgy semantics for the sake of edginess is neither clarifying nor educational.

vmception 5y ago

He nailed the SEO game while ya’ll were buying books If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady

amazingman 5y ago
> He nailed the SEO game while ya’ll were buying books[.] If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady You should double check your ethics algorithms. It is absolutely “shady” to advertise child rape for profit, regardless of whether or not you intend to ultimately make good on that advertisement.
- vmception 5y ago
  Something to keep perverts busy instead of letting them find what they were already looking for If the affiliate sites were actually intentionally providing that kind of media I would call it very shady to take affiliate dollars from them
  - amazingman 5y ago
    If they were intentionally providing that media they would be criminals, not “shady”.
    - vmception 5y ago
      accepting affiliate money from criminals is shady the criminals are criminals this wasn’t a debate it would be debatable whether that would make the affiliate payment transactions criminal, but that ship has sailed as its too late, which only makes it shady, if that media was being intentionally provided if not, then not shady easy calculus for me
      - amazingman 5y ago
        It’s fine for you to have a custom internal definition of a word, but it’s counterproductive for you to use it to offer veiled praise for patent misconduct. Edgy semantics for the sake of edginess is neither clarifying nor educational.