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Re:FTC to Crack Down on Paid Celebrity Posts That Aren’t Cle... by rayiner on Friday August 05, 2016 @03:28PM (#12235135)
Right now the boundary for restrictions on commercial speech seems to lie right around labeling for GMOs. Calorie labeling is okay because its purely informational, factually neutral, and has a direct link to a real concrete government interest. GMO labeling is on the border because there is a strong political element to it, and there is no proof GMOs (unlike too many calories) are actually bad and therefore it does not implicate a government interest.

I would think the FTC's action is substantially over that line.

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