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McDonald’s and Wendy’s win false advertising lawsuit
(www.cnn.com)
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Only because 'everyone does it'
"US District Judge Hector Gonzalez ruled that Wendy’s and McDonald’s food images “are no different than other companies’ use of visually appealing images to foster positive associations with their products.”
Italics mine
Ahh yes the rarely used "jump off a bridge reversal" defense. If everyone jumped off a bridge would you do it too? Of course!
At the very least I’d start checking for a monster chasing them off the bridge.
"Systemic problems are OK!"
Everyone does drugs, can we stop punishing people for it?
woah woah woah how would we enslave minorities if we decriminalized drugs
be a little more empathetic to slave owners (prisons and by proxy the politicians) please
Not really, that's a minor part of the opinion. The more important part is they tell you how much food you're going to get of what kind and then they give you that food. I don't think anyone would be able to win a case on "my burger didn't look like the burger in the ad" because every burger looks a little different. Lots of things that are the same don't look the same and let's not suddenly pretend we get McDonalds for the appearance. They'd win false advertising if, say, a quarter pounder was only 2 oz.
...and that's false advertising, that's the point of the lawsuit.
yeah this lawsuit is stupid and anyone who thinks McDonald's would lose is also stupid
have we forgotten what advertising is? its idealized, its artificial, its eye-catching. thats the point. like the suit says everyone does it, thats just good marketing.
frankly i think it makes commericals a bit more tolerable if theyre at least aesthetically pleasing. but marketers marketing in a system that requires advertising for anyone to be relevant cannot be infringed on for just two companies doing the marketing the exact same. blame capitalism for ads not the companies.
(unless we're taking excessive ads on websites or whatever then blame the sites they're just greedy)
And they should not be allowed to.
what is the line then
how bout this. we ban ALL film. cameras are no longer allowed and any sort of media should be burned as its all idealized and any picture of anything wont look like a picture of something else therefore all media should be banned due to false advertising.
wait that doesnt make any sense. youre not gonna take a shitty video of yourself and post it online youre gonna take a bunch of attempts so it looks better than you actually are. that's marketing its no different that a company is doing it. therefore if you want to be angry at a company "false advertising" then be mad at every picture in existence too.
try to at least be consistent with your cynicism. dont judge others based on their actions if youre gonna judge yourself only based on your circumstance.
Well you at least said one sane thing in that rambling cacophony
lol so u dont have any idea and ur just yapping got it
If you replace your underscores with asterisks, emphasis/italics should work as intended.
I am posting this from Voyager, does it not look correct? I did not underscore anything and added the italics for his quote.
Nothing in your comment is italicized in Sync.
Does this line show up in italics for you?
Yes it does
GTK..
Lemmy is weird
😂
Here's what I see:
Interesting, I do not see the underscores in Voyager.
Interesting indeed
let's test another theory
This comment is in italics on Voyager
Holy shit... That's me making italics with underscores instead of asterisks...
And it shows up right for me in Sync.,
Shit is weird
It looks fine on Boost for Lemmy