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when the government regulates it. until then it will continue to the end of time.


There are already laws for false advertising.


In America? Barely. EVERYTHING can be called "puffery", which apparently makes it perfectly legal to make outright lies about your product, and if you instead merely pay someone who makes outright lies, apparently that's fine too if you didn't explicitly tell them to make those specific lies!

In America, it is legal to call your uncarbonated soft drink "vitamin water"!




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