Lina Khan, who is allegedly of middling attractiveness, has become a kind of government celebrity
People on the right-wing have supported this Khan slut. They say she’s against monopolies or something, and she’s going to crack down on Big Tech.
However, instead of doing that, she’s just attacking free speech.
A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect.The Federal Trade Commission issued the rule in August banning the sale or purchase of online reviews. The rule, which went into effect Monday, allows the agency to seek civil penalties against those who knowingly violate it.
“Fake reviews not only waste people’s time and money, but also pollute the marketplace and divert business away from honest competitors,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said about the rule in August. She added that the rule will “protect Americans from getting cheated, put businesses that unlawfully game the system on notice, and promote markets that are fair, honest, and competitive.”
Specifically, the rule bans reviews and testimonials attributed to people who don’t exist or are generated by artificial intelligence, people who don’t have experience with the business or product/services, or misrepresent their experience.
How does anyone know what is what? Isn’t it the decision of the platform, whether they take action against fake reviews?
I’m not saying that fake reviews are good, but most of them are coming from this bitch’s homeland.
Wirus. You’ve got one, sir.
Aside from sanctioning India for polluting American infrastructure, I don’t even know how you would stop it. More importantly, this is an infringement against the freedom of speech.
How far from a “fake review” is “fake news”? You can’t ban lying.
What the government is doing to attack speech is the same thing they did to attack heterosexual sex. Heterosexual sex is still technically legal, it’s simply that there are so many restrictions on it, and so many risks of running afoul of these restrictions, that most men do not even want to deal with it at all.
Regulations against “fake” speech are a clear attack on speech generally.
Furthermore: doesn’t this violate SCOTUS ruling Garland v. Cargill, which found that the ATF did not have a right to ban bump stocks because by doing so, they were creating a new law?
It was at least theorized by legal scholars that the ATF ruling meant that none of these three letter agencies could create new laws. I don’t know what this review ban is other than a new law.
People Should Have Some Level of Personal Responsibility
Frankly, Khan’s cousins doing the scams on the phones is a much bigger problem than them doing fake ads (although I understand that issue would not fall to the FTC).
The spam/scam calls that Indians make to the phones of every American on a daily basis have completely shut down the telephone system in this country. It used to be that your phone would ring, and even if you didn’t recognize the number, you assumed it was a normal person calling you. Now, it is effectively impossible to use the telephone system, because of all of these subcontinental scam artists sabotaging the phone system.
Whether or not fake reviews are a form of fraud is debatable, but they can’t be legally fraud. Or, apparently they can be, but they shouldn’t be. Fake reviews are hosted by websites, voluntarily. Amazon specifically seems to have a policy of encouraging fake reviews, as they are aware that these fake reviews cause people to buy products for sale on Amazon. Maybe you could argue that Amazon tacitly approving of fake reviews is a form of fraudulent advertisement, but this is not what Khan is arguing.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this law would ban Ronaldo from advertising for KFC.
He obviously doesn’t eat KFC.
When Ronaldo or any other fit celebrity goes on TV and claims they eat unhealthy food, they’re giving a false testimony in support of a product for money.
Of course, the government is not going to go after major corporations for false advertisement. This anti-fake review law invented by Lina Khan is basically “the anti-drop-shipper law.” Much more likely, this becomes “we have laws against fake review comments, we need laws against fake review comments.”
People need to have some form of personal responsibility. The Indians who spam-scam call phones all day long are interrupting people’s lives, sabotaging their ability to use their phones for normal communication. No one is imposed on by fake reviews, and only a moron would ever believe random online reviews in the first place, unless it is something like the Steam store, where you know that every person reviewing actually bought the game. Any website that allows randos to sign up and make reviews is obviously going to be flooded with fake reviews. That will be true whether or not there is a law against it.
For the record, I’m not even against the arguments people give in supporting Lina Khan, it’s simply that I don’t think she is actually going to do any of those things that her supporters claim she is going to do. No one can name anything good the government has ever done, so it is actually deranged and maniacal to claim that the government is going to do something good.
