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This is about stopping a form of business-funded deceptive advertising. This is not about regulating private behavior or private speech. You can say (or forwa

• anamax 17y ago
  > The issue here is dishonest commercial speech We understand that was the target in this case. The parent was pointing out that there's more damage caused by another kind of speech. When you lose your keys, do you look where it's easiest to look or where they're likely to be?
• byrneseyeview 17y ago
  I really, really hope you don't actually believe that. You seem to be arguing that a claim made for reasons you don't like is morally inferior to a more harmful claim made for reasons you do like. Is it really worse for one commercially-minded person to say "Try Acme Widget; I hear they give great service!" than for a well-meaning person to say "No decent person can afford to give these potential Satanic Ritual Abusers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembers) the benefit of the doubt."? It's fine to say that someone should not make harmful claims due to commercial motivations. But I don't see why the motivation is the concern, not the harm of the claim. Would you rather live in a world in which harmful claims aren't made, or a world in which harmful claims are made all the time, but at least the way people are compensated for them isn't monetary.