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> Lol, if you'll make "knowingly misleading the public" a crime you will have to outlaw all of the religions, most of the politicians, celebrities, commercials

Yes please, to all! Particularly advertising, as these days it grew to be a cancer on human society.

> news companies, blogs, businesses, people with social media accounts...

Those could be run without lying to people.

Now I realize that regulating this is impossible (who watches the watchers, and all that) and trying would invite horrible consequences, but I wish we could at least change the social perception of lying to people. At individual level misleading others isn't going to earn you many friends, but when scaled up, it suddenly becomes a respectable occupation. This is one of the weirdest things about humans that I know.




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