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The purpose of the Lanham Act is to create a civil tort for consumers who believe they have been harmed by false advertising. You have not been harmed. You foun
by notafraudster 5y ago
The purpose of the Lanham Act is to create a civil tort for consumers who believe they have been harmed by false advertising. You have not been harmed. You found a weird thing. Clicking on a website that isn't a website you expected isn't a harm. By posting this you are making clear you know it isn't the website you expected, so it's unclear you were even deceived. If you were deceived by, I don't know, wasting a click, the harm would be de minimis and you'd be bounced from court. You googled the Lanham act to quote it, so you know this.
This is a vaguely interesting thing to think about, but the extreme internet lawyer framing of the post takes away from the weirdness of the thing you found.
- endboss 5y agoIt is easy to imagine how this misrepresenting could lead to actual harm, unless you are suggesting that for some weird reason Google allows this to happen only with news sites? Regarding the "lawyer framing", try reading again the start of that sentence.