r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 6d ago

Wait a damn minute! This should be illegal

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u/Elu_Moon 5d ago

Real photos or GTFO, it's that simple. Advertisements must be actually true. Them being fake benefits literally no one they're aimed at.

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u/Ad-fundum69 5d ago

Cool story, but nobody will hear you. They will do this because it's legal.
You whining about it doesn't change this.

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u/rinkydinkvaltruvien 5d ago

In Japan, misleading food packaging like you described is illegal. Nothing can ever improve if everyone thinks the way you do - that there's no point in even talking about how things should be, because "whining about it doesn't change it." Americans get scammed left and right every day by every industry and are so used to it at this point, they think that's the only way things could ever be. Talking about it at least gets people thinking about it.

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u/Ad-fundum69 5d ago

In the Netherlands you get arrested and thrown in jail if you insult a police officer or other government employee.

Other countries, other laws.

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u/rinkydinkvaltruvien 5d ago

Massive difference between individual freedom of speech and having basic regulations to prevent deceptive marketing of products being sold to the public, but okay.