Comment by crmd
We need more regulation of commercial speech. It should be unlawful with serious penalties to knowingly mislead people via commercial speech.
We need more regulation of commercial speech. It should be unlawful with serious penalties to knowingly mislead people via commercial speech.
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?
> 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...