Every company has a balance between clean and ethical design. Is there a particular standard or is it solely based on the type of business operations? I've given a few examples to help illustrate my point.
Example 1: McDonald's Monopoly
The terms of use are found at the bottom of the screen. True, the information may be hard to find, but the information is still available. This makes clean design, but also incorporates ethical design. If you had the terms of use on the front page, the design would be poor.
Example 2: My Site
I have a site where users can watch movies. Each movie has a certain amount of copies left. Each copy represents a copy our company has purchased. Do users care about this information or do they just want clean design?
NOTE: People and the government are very different. The government may try and sue us because we don't display the content correctly.
Question: What is the proper balance between clean and ethical design? I want the users to be happy, but I also want information to be freely available at the click of a button.