NSA ads -_-

[Youbetternot]

There is now NSA ads, clearly stupid on a site that blasts the NSA

 

If the NSA only invited TechCrunch to its birthday party, it’d have to eat its cake alone. While we aren’t big fans of the NSA, it appears to fancy our readers, as it consistently advertises on our site.

This makes me slightly uncomfortable, as I have spent a good portion of my time these past few months excoriating and blasting the NSA for what I view as unconstitutional abrogation of ourFourth Amendment rights. And here is the NSA, spending dollars to reach our audience, through those very posts.

I suppose it is vaguely democratic to grant them part of our space to make their case, but as this is a financial relationship (they pay us, either directly or through a third-party), it’s not a question of free speech.

 

 

 

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/28/nsas-targeting-prowess-doesnt-extend-to-ads/

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Haha, that's kind of amusing.

[Imaginaerum]

Reminds me of seeing Christian Mingle or Book of Mormon ads on an atheist website, or sometimes the other way around.

[Beskamir]

If they use Google adsense then it's based on what the person searches up.