Is this justice or what?

My machine is protected by a hosts file that blocks inline adverts.
It's a very good thing: "google" for "hosts file" and you'll find
several sources that will help you with this...

I have just now learned that our petition at petitiononline.com is
getting ads from google adwords for a business that sells live fish and
coral online! I won't repeat the URL and I hope you won't either.

Is this bad or good? The business is horrible, it makes a market for
all those poor people that dynamite and cyanide their reefs to collect
the specimens they sell. It doesn't matter what they [the advertisers]
do per se, they make a market.

It's REAL JUSTICE, that's what it is. These poor schlubs are PAYING
google everytime their ad is viewed, and they are paying more if the ad
is clicked. They are paying for views from people that will probably
never be customers.

Google has heard from me anyway. AFAIK, Google is an ethical,
responsible citizen and doesn't knowingly promote "guns for teens" or
"drug abuse" or anything else unethical. If the ad comes up on your
machine and you feel the same way, click on the ads_by_goooogle link at
the lower right of the ad box and you can send your comments to google
about the ad.

Though I am appalled at the business, I am delighted that Google (via
petitiononline) is charging them for "views" that will, by and large,
bring them no business. You can't wish them away no matter how much you
hate them. They will advertise somewhere, so why not here, where it
won't help? Its kind of diabolical.

In the end though, I don't even blame the business for selling. The
real criminals are the jack asses that *buy* the fish and corals.

sincerely,

BoyntonDiver