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I find it very worrisome that the government views online anonymous postings on a private website as advertisement to be enforced by public agencies. But, I gu

• Zikes 13y ago
  Speech is free right up to where it interferes with others' freedoms and liberties, which is why we have slander/libel laws, etc. The medium doesn't exempt people from those laws.
  • thaumasiotes 13y ago
    But false positive reviews are extremely unlikely to fall afoul of libel laws...
• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > I find it very worrisome that the government views online anonymous postings on a private website as advertisement to be enforced by public agencies. Why? I mean, in which of the cases where they were specifically treated as "advertisement" were the facts of case such that the postings should not have been viewed as an advertisement? Why, particularly, would any of these facts make an advertisement any less an advertisement, or any less subject to any regulation that applies to advertisement generally? 1. The fact that the source is concealed ("anonymous postings") 2. The fact that it is published via a privately owned channel ("private") 3. The fact that it is published on the web ("website")