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Originally Posted by trevgriff
I would think that since its their business they have that right. I've never seen an ad for Sony laptops on the Dell website.
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Dells website is not a platform for contents, and Dell is selling hardware. It's a lousy analogy.
The argument that "it's their business, they have that right", could be used on everything - I mean, whatever a company does, "they have that right". The problem is, of course, that a lot of things are governed by rules and laws, and even if this isn't governed by anything, one can make an ethical call on the matter.
The problem I see here, is a lot of apologists who glorify their favourite company - or at least give them a carte blanche - by claiming that whatever that company does is "within their rights". Sure, it might be within their right in a legal sense (at least in some countries), but in the end that sort of apologism is what gives the consumer continuously less choice.