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COLGATE4

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5. It's tricky but certainly not impossible.

Reply to riqster (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 2, 2014, 03:58 PM

Dec 2014

After all, our law already has limitations or prohibitions on certain forms of speech: defamation, perjury, incitement to violence, child pornography, and, most tellingly, commercial speech (which enjoys much less protection than political speech). If we can regulate advertising we can certainly regulate lying when presented to the public as "news".

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The Problem is: it�s Perfectly Legal for Them to Lie to Us. [View all] riqster Dec 2014 OP

rec phantom power Dec 2014 #1

Thanks. riqster Dec 2014 #2

Imagine if the US had a system similar to that COLGATE4 Dec 2014 #3

Agreed. But the First amendment makes it tricky. riqster Dec 2014 #4

It's tricky but certainly not impossible. COLGATE4 Dec 2014 #5

True. I offered a couple of workarounds in the OP. riqster Dec 2014 #6

Some might call it being the "least untruthful possible". n/t hughee99 Dec 2014 #7

That was doubleplusgood! riqster Dec 2014 #8

"Fraud" used to be considered a bad thing... bluesbassman Dec 2014 #9

It's so common it is rarely called out anymore. riqster Dec 2014 #10