[Haydos585x2]

You're right. I think it's easy to blame Jerry Media for their role in marketing the product but nobody blamed Samsung's marketing agency for the phones exploding. Nobody blamed VW's marketing agency when the cars were caught cheating emissions testing.

[krferriter]

Those are pretty different. Samsung's battery issue was a defect that they issued full refunds and replacements for, it was not a case of false advertising or fraud.

VW was fraud because they were promising emissions levels that were not accurate and they knew the numbers were lies. VW plead guilty to criminal charges, had executives evicted from the company, and was hit with massive fines in response.

If FuckJerry knew that the things they were promising in their marketing were not accurate, they should be hit with fines as well and corporate criminal charges. These sorts of acts of fraud would never be allowed on TV or other advertising media. For some reason we give companies on social media a pass. Fraud and other financial crimes that happen on social media by businesses should be punished like they are on other media.

[smileysteve]

Another relation is that both Samsung Pr and Fuck Jerry minimized and deleted publicity (be it YouTube videos or instagram comments)