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Re:Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotion... by SMAAART on Monday September 14, 2020 @03:12PM (#24473917)
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

Well, we do have laws about

* False Advertisement * Investors' Fraud

Unfortunately they are not applied, or not applied consistently; and this is just one of the many examples that I come across on a weekly basis.

What makes matters worse is that when talking about it with people at work or so, they don't seem to care enough and feel it's not a problem.

It is a problem, it's a slippery slope into lawless chaos.

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Re:Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotion... by markdown on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:02PM (#24474467)
> Well, we do have laws about False Advertisement

If such laws exist, they aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

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Re:Nikola admits prototype was rolling downhill in promotion... by kencausey on Monday September 14, 2020 @04:10PM (#24474548)
I hope you realize that is simplistic. Is the bar for enforcing such laws very high and do many often slip under it? Yes. And yet prosecutions under such laws are happening constantly.
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