Fair points.

I suppose if it were me that got caught I would just accept that I had been an idiot and face the music.

It just felt to me that the advert might just sway some people into trying to avoid their punishment - and that is morally wrong in my book.

By the way, I work in the marketing industry and we regularly get turned down by web site owners who refuse to carry adverts (for our clients) of a certain type (nothing illegal or sexual by the way). Those sites just have a policy of not accepting certain types of adverts (e.g. for PPI, pay day loans etc), so the Big Brother moral judgement of adverts you aluded to already takes place (and has done for many years).

Edited by csgmart on 08/02/2014 at 08:48

... it'll be Big Brother if websites start passing moral judgements about what is or isn't allowed.

Our moderators already do this on our behalf, at least about what we contribute to threads. Of course if income is involved, the goalposts start to drift ?