Government??to ban false advertising?

The issue is hotly debated today: Should Congress regulate the Internet—for example, to ban false advertising? Does Commerce Clause give Congress to power to regulate Internet activity?
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False exposure is in the main heading. The disclaimer, in exceptionally smaller print, have all the discrepancies covered. Do you want Billy Mays to lose his job?

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Yes, it does have that power, and yes, false advertising is already illegal.

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Congress does if the site is hosted in the U.S. If it is hosted overseas (where many of these sites are located), they enjoy no control.

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False advertising is already against the directive. Anyone caught doing it can be sued for doing it. I remember a whole movie the focused (I know it's just a movie but it has truth surrounded by it) on an advertisement where a care dealer's commercial be made to sound like the dealer have a "mile of used cars to sell" and his competition (the one that had the commercial changed) took him to court over it. The movie ended that that dealer bought up adjectives the cars he could (even junkers) and made his mile by just a few inches.

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