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Unpopular Opinion: Celebrities should be held legally accountable for the products they endorse. If a "reasonable person" can look at the info the celeb or in
by timoth3y 5y ago
Unpopular Opinion: Celebrities should be held legally accountable for the products they endorse.
If a "reasonable person" can look at the info the celeb or influencer had at the time and consider it a scam or untruthful, the celebrity should face financial penalties for making that endorsement.
- nojs 5y agoI think you may have misread the headline. These scams use fake “celebrity endorsements”, the “celebrities” are not actually endorsing anything.
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- randomhodler84 5y agoUnpopular opinion: people should take responsibility for their financial decisions. Like I’m sorry you gave all your money to a scammer, or bought the wrong coin. But that ain’t my problem. And it isn’t societies either.
- hugh-avherald 5y agoPretty obvious impact on society and markets if fraud is unpunished.
- randomhodler84 5y agoTrue. And nobody likes fraud. And it should be dealt with. I just have trouble having sympathy for people that willingly hand over money to obvious scams. Double your Bitcoin is a classic one. Yeah, right, elons going to double your deposit. Greedy stupid people fall for it, lose, why didn’t someone protect me.
- tjmc 5y agoI don't have much sympathy for greedy people who are scammed. I do have sympathy for elderly people who are scammed. Mental acuity can diminish significantly with age. My Dad used to be a very sharp corporate lawyer. He's now over 80 and was very lucky not to lose $10,000 to a phone scam a while ago. They were in the process of switching ISPs and a scammer called saying they were from his ISP and needed to check his computer. They managed to talk him into installing remote access software and logging into his bank account. A huge red flag for us is not necessarily so for people who are old and technically challenged. Luckily the scam happenned on a weekend, my Dad was suspicious enough to call me and we managed to stop the $10k transfer just in time. Although my Dad's scam was a phone call, online advertisers can do a much better job of screening for scam ads at trivial cost to their operations compared to the effect on vulnerable individuals.
- randomhodler84 5y agoThank you for sharing. My post was insensitive and missed the human connection where real people are hurt. I wish nothing but bad tidings on those that wish to exploit human vulnerability for selfish gain.
- mdoms 5y agoI don't think that's a remotely unpopular opinion. It's just not at all relevant to this case.
- jimmydorry 5y agoI'm assuming you read the article. I don't understand why you would hold that opinion. Why should anyone be held responsible for a product that they are typically not even aware about that has used their face / name without permission? If I took a picture of you and overlaid it on my ad for a special brand of consumable bleach which I then promote all over social media, should you then be held responsible?
- clouddrover 5y agoTo quote from the article: "The schemes were in fact scams, and the people featured in the ads had never approved or endorsed them."