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LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
It should be illegal to misrepresent an ad as a post or comment. This exact thing should be against the law. The boundary between advertising and social media is so thin at this point. It has to stop. It’s dangerous for consumers.
andrewth09@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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prole@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
my penis has gone up two sizes
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Are these alleged “sizes” universal? Or is it like shoes where a 12 in the US means 45.5 or some shit in EU?
xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Twice. I did it twice.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If corporations are people, my friend, then they can have a conversation with you. What’s the harm in that?
Syrc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Still waiting on the first corporation to get thrown in jail
ElCanut@jlai.lu 5 months ago
It’s already illegal in the EU, several influencers have had trouble with the law because of this in my country (France)
prole@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
This is what people like Musk are concerned about when they claim to be “free speech absolutists”. This is where their concern for that freedom begins and ends.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The law requires YouTubers to identify sponsored segments. I don’t see why that shouldn’t also be applied to social media posts.
hayes_@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The law does apply to social media posts.
The social media company has to mark sponsored content and give users the means to do so themselves (when the partnership is between the user and a third party rather than the social media company).
Unfortunately it’s hard to prove and profitable to lie.
Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
social media corporations can be made liable under the law, well how about here in Lemmy, where the instance owner may not even know that companies are creating bots and posting discrete advertisements, or hiring trolls to advertise for them?
2deck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is it difficult to prove that’s what’s explicitly being sold in this case?
pumpkinseedoil@feddit.de 5 months ago
It’s hard since it could theoretically also be an actual user who used that website themself.
obinice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In which countries, though? That’s a key point that seems missed from a lot of responses discussing “the law”.
Laws vary quite significantly from nation to nation, and without that key context, there’s not much that can be garnered.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The US, for one, which pretty much makes it apply universally anywhere on YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, as they’re all US companies.