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We need more regulation of commercial speech. It should be unlawful with serious penalties to knowingly mislead people via commercial speech.
by crmd 2y ago
We need more regulation of commercial speech. It should be unlawful with serious penalties to knowingly mislead people via commercial speech.
- yencabulator 2y ago> In law, fraud is intentional deception to deprive a victim of a legal right or to gain from a victim unlawfully or unfairly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud > Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, [...] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
- hirvi74 2y agoI concur. We already have laws about commercial speech regarding false advertising laws in the US. I am not sure why a job listings cannot be beholden to similar laws, as well. Aren't companies, on some highly pedantic level, "advertising" that they have an open position when listing a job?