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Aren't all ads lying?

• DowsingSpoon 8y ago
  >Aren't all ads lying? Not at all. Please refer to the Wikipedia page on "False advertising" for an overview of what does and does not constitute false advertising. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising
  • Skunkleton 8y ago
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• anyfoo 8y ago
  I keep being baffled at how transgressions tend to get handwaved away with "everybody does it" by some commenters on Hacker News. First, there are plenty of locations where advertising is heavily regulated. Second, even in locations where that is not true, "everybody does it" does not justify anything. Every surgeon used to perform their job without washing their hands, and yet we got rid of that behavior.
  • kowdermeister 8y ago
    > "everybody does it" does not justify anything Indeed, it doesn't, I just found the commenter being way too captain obvious :)