"Beat Up Obama" game ad

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A couple screens ago I got an ad that said "Beat Up Obama!" and it had Obama's face on the body of a white guy with balled up fists and it had a boxing glove above and below him saying "Click To Punch!". I hate the guy as much as anybody else, but to put an ad in the Google queue advocating physical violence against the POTUS is at the very least in poor taste and at most possibly illegal. Could the mods remove that ad? I know we get a lot of ads from gaming sites, I guess we fit their user profile, but this is the first time I've seen something like this from them.

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Well, public figures are considered fair game for more or less anything, particularly games. In general, the judgment is that a politician has chosen to be in the public eye and does not have the same rights so far as what can or cannot be shown publicly about themselves.

[On an offshoot: Honestly, I'm impressed with the guy. I liked a lot of the stuff he said in his campaign, but figured it was a load of BS. He seems to be trying to actually keep his word. In a politician, this is a miracle.
I do have an issue with him being called African American.. his American half isn't African and his African half isn't American, but from the research I've done into the whole citizenship fiasco, it seems that he was born in Hawaii after it became a state, to an American mother, and is, therefore, a natural-born citizen. But yea, like I said, side rant.)

Point being that the game is perfectly legal, and while it may be in poor taste, it's not technically unethical. (I know there shouldn't *really* [ahem, and by *really* I mean, um, technically] be technicalities to ethics, but there's still a technical freedom of speech thing attached to anything making fun of a politician.) It probably attracts plenty of attention, which is the purpose of an advertisement. They're not meant to be tasteful; tackiness attracts more attention.

I'm very very liberal, but I don't have a problem with these ads. Bush got coutless numbers of them.

I'm going to (gasp!) do the mods a favor here, and repeat that what I've heard in response to similar requests is that the site has a contract with Google Ads, and doesn't really have any control over which ones are displayed, so any issues would have to be taken up with Google... If you're running Firefox (and you really should be), ad block plus is a quick and painless way to insure that you never see the offensive ad again, or any other ad for that matter.

I keep getting these nasty ads of naked guys with before and after shots of them getting ripped..

There ought to be a law against false advertising!

This is true, but when you talk about them, you're more likely to see them again. The ad source recognizes the keywords and assumes you want to see more of those types of ads. So really, talking about them only helps them.

MissConstrue, I'm getting the same ads, and I'm not sure why it suddenly decided showing male ones would make me more likely than the female ones. Of course, I don't have to see that nasty belly piercing (or at least I hope that's what it was) anymore, so that makes me happier.