Earlier this week, a post written by programmer and teacher Bill Sourour went viral. It's called "Code I'm Still Ashamed Of."
In it he recounts a horrible story of being a young programmer who landed a job building a website for a pharmaceutical company. The whole post is worth a read, but the upshot is he was duped into helping the company skirt drug advertising laws in order to persuade young women to take a particular drug.
He later found out the drug was known to worsen depression and at least one young woman committed suicide while taking it. He found out his sister was taking the drug and warned her off it.
By sake of comparison, take a look at the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (Adopted by ACM Council 10/16/92.)
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @09:54PM
You can only get away with lies and spin so far.
The President-elect disagrees.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday November 22 2016, @10:49PM
He's not in power yet...
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].