Google bans cryptocurrency ads

Post by s73v3r_ » Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 5:55 PM UTC

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I've received a couple in the UK. Low end telemarketers (overseas, poor English, zero knowledge of their subject matter) and clearly originating from random dialling or a list of mobile numbers without names, so making traditional boiler room operations seem sophisticated.

I wonder at what point it becomes profitable to hire telemarketers to drive interest in a cryptocurrency you've bought into so you can pump and dump, especially if these telemarketers are coming from overseas where they're notoriously cheap.

Post by whataretensors » Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 5:58 PM UTC

Post by root_axis » Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 6:01 PM UTC

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I apologize if the word offends you. It was both intentioned to be non offensive (which should be apparent from my admiration for her WORK while giving no fucks about her as a person) and carries a common definition in the English space of being polite and non derogatory. Had she been male my comment would be exactly the same except it would say 'dude' in place of 'chick'. Now does anyone know where I can find that w…

> Had she been male my comment would be exactly the same except it would say 'dude' in place of 'chick'. Dude is gender neutral. Chick comes from "chica", which by itself comes from the Latin "ciccum" as in pea. By calling a woman a chick, you are called her a "chick-pea". There's even some association with "chick bird", as in a bird you hunt. Modern usage associates the use of "chick" with the beauty of the individu…

Post by s73v3r_ » Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

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I feel the same way about prescription drugs. Those are for doctors to prescribe, not for patients to request.

Going to disagree with you. Doctors often have incentives to prescribe certain drugs over others that aren’t necessarily the best drug. If it’s legal to advertise to physicians then it should be legal to advertise to consumers. Ultimately the consumer is in charge of their own health and should have a say in their drug choices. Let’s think of another industry — tires. Is a consumer typically an automotive engineer or…

Post by coatmatter » Wed, Mar 14, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

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From the best tweetstorm ever on topic by Sarah Jeong: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/953464303960469504 > All of this has gone too far!!!!! It was fine when you paranoid dorks were out there scamming each other, please leave the normies alone!!!!!!!!!!!

> Get out of my mentions unless you read the white paper at least five years ago or earlier Love it, thanks for sharing. It does seem like she is making the mistake of conflating Bitcoin with general crypto however, which can be misleading to her audience. Bitcoin indeed suffers from slow transaction speeds and extreme volatility. Other coins, truer to the original vision, fair much better in those respects, and with…