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Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog

Posted by kdawson on from the paid-me-to-do-it dept.

Scott Jaschik writes "At Hunter College, professors are debating the ethics of a course in which an industry group paid for a class to develop a fake student who would write a fake blog to discourage other students from buying knockoff products. The controversy involves both commercial interference with academic freedom and the ethics of 'guerilla marketing.'"

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  1. Ironic by Presence1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They are attempting to create a counterfeit person to persuade people to dislike counterfeit goods.

    Counterfeiting of goods does suck, but this does not seem to be the way to get people on your side...