Marketing vs Truth: Where Halacha Draws the Line

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And two is I'm curious to know if there's any crossover in legal law. If someone could actually get taken to court for this, let's see how this played up to court. >> Yeah, >> I know anything. They have >> they have no qualms about taking people to court. The question is, I guess, what will will it hold up [snorts] at all in court? >> Okay, so once again, thank you again for inviting me back. Sorry it's on short notice but I like coming so keep doing it. Okay today's topic is about the concept of geneva [snorts] das geneva das literally translated is fooling or stealing someone's mind. Okay. Now very often it overlaps with not only stealing their mind but stealing their money. Okay. Today we're going to focus mostly on cases where there's no monetary loss and it's purely trickery. So in plain English I'll call it more or less the vast majority of marketing that we deal with today is false portrayals or at least greatly glorified portrayals of an object or service that is potentially provided. Okay. So in preparing I wanted to bring the computer and plug up to this guy the Stockcon video. You had a little bit of a shorter beard back then. >> So the video that's on your website, right? And what does it basically do? It shows the law firm in its greatest who represents the law firm, all the good things about them. Right [clears throat] here was the following case that was presented to me. It was after the fact. A guy in my videographer, very talented fellow,

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1. 0:00And two is I'm curious to know if there's any crossover in legal law. If someone…
2. 4:51>> Yeah. >> Yeah. It's false advertising. >> False advertising. >> Maybe. I mean, but >>…
3. 10:10went and they pieced it together like Lego to put it back together and they just…
4. 15:36>> keep it up. >> You just finished. >> I know. I should have brought my…
5. 20:58got all my stuff got, you know, where they tailor put the pins in and marked…
6. 26:16That's a good discussion. Every case is going to be individually based because I can't charge…
7. 31:03the smash brings down. You're allowed to do it also because everyone knows that you do…
8. 36:54products it's not as simple to be able to play around with it because then a…
9. 42:13cop. No, I'm not really interested. I'll just buy the barrel. You sure? Sure. Okay. Now,…
10. 47:25situation where it is um I'm sorry, this number two is anytime where it's a new…

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