2. An internship actually can be valuable work experience, and that job may not exist at all if it can't be unpaid.
You are right though, it's quite a stretch of the term.
What I wanted to say is that the party offering compensation through experience is, in my opinion, just trying to get free work and making it look like they are "paying" by "giving out" experience.
A person on a full-time internship should get enough to cover basic living expenses. The employer should pay (in money) what the work done is worth to them.
That wouldn't make it a strawman fallacy -- it would just make it refutable.
> in my opinion
I don't think that the fact some people have that opinion is justification for the law.
> A person on a full-time internship should get enough to cover basic living expenses.
I haven't heard of many full-time internships. People who take internships generally don't have the time for full-time without pay, and the organizations that offer those internships tend to know that.