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I think if we strengthened fraud provision we eliminate many societal problems, including marketing. If marketers were required to be completely honest and transparent, a lot of this goes away.


you can lie (advertise) by omission... I see no way one can legislate all the things that marketing campaign must tell you about the product/service


This is part of fraud (from Wikipedia):

> While the precise definitions and requirements of proof vary among jurisdictions, the requisite elements of fraud as a tort generally are the intentional misrepresentation or concealment of an important fact upon which the victim is meant to rely, and in fact does rely, to the detriment of the victim.




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