Not been proven vs lying is a difference. For example, Trump saying Germany has increased crime due to immigration and is fixing its crime statistics, or his ambassador to the Netherlands saying in the Netherlands politicians are being burned are lies.
Advertisement is also riddled with half truth, exaggerations, and carefully selected statistics. Yet false advertisement is still illegal. And in my opinion advertisement should be much more strongly restricted still.
As it is you've just reiterated the (IMO) fallacious slippery slope argument, and not addressed my point that it's a fallacy.
Just because there is a grey area doesn't mean we need to freeze in paralysis. I say because of the grey area we should be careful with where we draw the line, but the existence of grey does not make it impossible or prohibitively dangerous to draw one. Otherwise we would have no laws.
Advertisement is also riddled with half truth, exaggerations, and carefully selected statistics. Yet false advertisement is still illegal. And in my opinion advertisement should be much more strongly restricted still.
As it is you've just reiterated the (IMO) fallacious slippery slope argument, and not addressed my point that it's a fallacy.
Just because there is a grey area doesn't mean we need to freeze in paralysis. I say because of the grey area we should be careful with where we draw the line, but the existence of grey does not make it impossible or prohibitively dangerous to draw one. Otherwise we would have no laws.