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Re:California law requires businesses to let you cancel your... by jen729w on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:17PM (#17467692)
Why would it be illegal? Unless it's written in to a law as something you can't do, it's by-default legal; and why would someone write a law saying that you couldn't pretend to be deaf?
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Re:California law requires businesses to let you cancel your... by cookiecaper on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:51PM (#17467864)
Generally speaking, it's unlawful to make false representations in the course of doing business. There doesn't necessarily need to be a specific law that says "you can't pretend to be deaf", because if you misrepresent such facts, you are very likely exposing a lot of legal attack surface.

IANAL.

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Re:California law requires businesses to let you cancel your... by realusername on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:26AM (#17468819)
> Generally speaking, it's unlawful to make false representations in the course of doing business

You basically described the whole field of advertising, if you make misrepresenting facts illegals, there's not a lot of businesses that would not be fined.

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Re:California law requires businesses to let you cancel your... by cookiecaper on Saturday July 07, 2018 @04:29PM (#17480399)
An unlikely best-case representation is not the same as a false one.
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