[Raspie]

I totally agree with you on certain points...

First of all, that I live in China doesn't make a difference. It is illegal here aswell and well... In the US they would fine you, here... Well, let's just say you don't want troubles here...

In any case : wether something is illegal or not should be defined by a central organisation... And hey!!! Look look, they have it in place : They called it courts. But they don't use it...

In any case: I want to start up my affilliate program and for a while I thought about 4-tier program. You are not rewarded for recruiting directly, just when somebody sells in your downline you get a commission on that... Perfectly legal I should say... Well, I reduced it to 2-tiers program for now, because I can't take the risk of being blacklisted... Paypal holds very strange practises on this one for example. There are cases that they even freeze the accounts... No way to determin if they will or not. Some pure hard-core MLM-programs find their way to Paypal, other commission based multi-tiers online shops get blocked... And be honest, nobody wants to take the risk of having is account frozen, right ?


Anyway... What I want to say is this: In some cases cars are used to commit crimes: robberies, hit-and-runs, sometimes even as a weapon by deliberately running over people... Should we just target any driver ? No. When you do something wrong with it, you get sactioned. And courts define wether you are guilty or not. On the other hand if somebody thinks his neighbour is doing wrong with his car, can he take the right in own hands and punish him by locking up in his basement? Because that is exactly what Paypal , google and all those others are doing in my humble opinion. Taking the right in own hands... They should pass the information to the legal authorities and let them handle it. Simple as that. Because blocking you from Google is one thing, freezing your money that is exactly like taking your neighbour and locking him up in your basement. One os called 'taking hostage' the other is called 'theft'...

Another thing is: China has been blamed for a long time for the 'Blame and Shame' - policy... It means they show the criminals publicely in other that everybody knows what they have done... We are not going to turn this in an ethical discussion, but in any case these guys have been convicted by court and then 'Named and Shamed'... In the MLM-case,... you are not even going to court... They just name-and-shame you without any legal procedures... Maybe Western authorities should look into their own yard first... Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Chinese, and I'm certainly not against the western culture... But living as an expat gave me a more open view as I look at it from a distance...

And not everything they tell you is good for you. Don't accept it as it is.

There are laws and rules, and governments have to watch if people obey. If people and or organisations start to take the right in their own hands, it will become chaos in the end. And that is exactly what Google and Paypal and others are doing all the time. They take the right in own hands and put a 'criminal sticker' on something or even take legal reporcautions like freezing your money !

Sorry, but I can't just follow the main-stream in this. I agree that people should be protected, But we have to be very carefull with who can do that or you create chaos.

Sorry if I offend some people by this. I didn't mean to do so. It is just my opinion.

Raspie.