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FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

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404 points indus | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source
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capital_guy ◴[22 Oct 24 18:57 UTC] No.41917486[source]▶
Amazing all the newfound lawyers in the HN section here pointing out "loopholes" in the rule and then getting corrected by the next commenter.

The FTC continues to do the good, thankless work of making good public policy. I appreciate it.

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tqi ◴[22 Oct 24 22:18 UTC] No.41919306[source]▶
Do you expect that a year from now (or two, or however long you think is a fair amount of time to pass), online reviews will be noticeably better/more useful than they are today? I think the underlying thread here is that most people don't expect this to be any more effective than anti-spam or anti-robocalling calling rules.
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1. behringer ◴[22 Oct 24 23:01 UTC] No.41919646[source]▶
Probably, yes.

And by the by, I get significantly less spam and phone calls than I used to. Vastly fewer and they're all clearly scams now, which makes it easy to ignore.