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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:29PM (#23834944)
It's the same thing as putting "fat free" on the Twizzlers. It's technically true which means they can get away with it. Except that that probably kills more people than "autopilot" ever will.
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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:36PM (#23835884)
It's not food companies' fault that the English word β€œfat” has multiple meanings and is the normal word for several of them.
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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @01:20PM (#23848327)
You don't think they're intentionally using that word for precisely that reason?
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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:42PM (#23860753)
But there's no other commonly-used word for it!
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Re:German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomo... by AnthonyMouse on Friday July 17, 2020 @03:25PM (#23874428)
"Sugar free" (oops, not true)

"No calories" (not true again)

There are a hundred ways to say that something won't cause you to gain weight. They chose the one that sounds like it means that even though it doesn't, because it also has a different meaning which is technically true.

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