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It’s not illegal to bend the truth, and since governments have been getting bought out by rich fucks with no ethics (or are comprised of rich fucks with no ethics by now), there is less than no incentive to enforce truth in advertising laws even where they still exist.

Especially in sectors like video games where the people getting ripped off aren’t rich themselves.

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FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah but I don’t get the purpose of lying. Why not just actually create the game they’re advertising? If they can make the ad, can’t they make the game?

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GoddessGundy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In this atmosphere they can absolutely get away with it because there are so many bigger problems that aren’t even getting attention.

I’d like to reference the gift card scam so many people dealt with in the early 2000s. You buy a gift card at a store with real, cold hard cash and it would expire after 6 months-2 years. No matter how much was on that gift card, it was null and void after a finite amount of time.

Legislation finally went through after way too long, and finally businesses had to honor gift cards for a much longer period of time.

I’d love to think one day they’d put a kebosh on advertising like this but unfortunately I’m very certain it will go on un-addressed for far too long. Our current society favors caveat emptor over caveat venditor.

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