False Ads: There Oughtta Be A Law! Or -- Maybe Not. - FactCheck.org
[via False Ads: There Oughtta Be A Law! Or -- Maybe Not. - FactCheck.org]:
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p>Here's a fact that may surprise you: candidates have a legal right to lie to voters just about as much as they want.
That comes as a shock to many voters. After all, consumers have been protected for decades from false ads for commercial products. Shouldn't there be "truth-in-advertising" laws to protect voters , too?
Turns out, that's a tougher question than you might imagine.
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Fascinating article about political campaign advertising. The author seems to *like our currest state, where one candidate can make bald faced lies against the other without puishment. That doesn't pass the smell text. In england, libel laws would send the offender to jail.
I'm all for protecting free spech, but slander and lies deserve no such protection.
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