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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.



> 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

> 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_exce...


I 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?




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