It's so crystal clear that this proposed law won't change content of ads, it's hilarious to me that anyone would argue otherwise.
Allow me to put this in the form of an IQ test question.Fortunately, "crystal clear to MyOwnDrum" is not a legal standard.
Allow me to put this in the form of an IQ test question.
Size is to Billboard Advertising as ______ is to Audio Advertising
A) Words
B) Color
C) Volume
D) Content
In the long storied history of our nation, has such a boycott ever worked??I agree that this is silly waste of lawmakers' time and yet another intrusion into areas they have no business involving themselves in.
This would not be necessary if our businessmen knew how to behave themselves and were respectful of others. The protection of and the well being of the citizens are very much the governments business.
The best response for consumers, would be a national pledge, so easy in the Internet Age, to boycott any product or service so advertised. Advertisers would respond with the predictability of guppies rising in an aquarium for their food.
VolumeAllow me to put this in the form of an IQ test question.
Size is to Billboard Advertising as ______ is to Audio Advertising
A) Words
B) Color
C) Volume
D) Content
No. Controlling volume is controlling content, directly, as volume is part of content.Common sense says it is not.
Controlling the size of the sign doesn't control what's on it.The problem is one of taste, size, and other advertisers.
And besides, there are about thousand other different issues between the two. Controlling the size of a sign or billboard may well meet conditions of scrutiny that a commercial volume restriction wouldn't.
It would be so simple---put a meter on the program, and then one on the commercial---adjust the volume on the commercial to match that of the program---we have accelerator pedals on our cars, but we also have a brake.
Sorry, didn't see one---I'll go back and look.--about the laud Movie noise---that also has been addressed here in H-town, after people complained they were to loud. which is why I still don't see the need for gubment intervention here. We have plenty of laws now to address this problem. Just get them enforced.The technical ease of it is entirely beside the point. There are a lot of things that would be very easy to do, but would still be unconstitutional.
You haven't answered the questions, by the way.
Sorry, didn't see one---I'll go back and look.--about the laud Movie noise---that also has been addressed here in H-town, after people complained they were to loud. which is why I still don't see the need for gubment intervention here. We have plenty of laws now to address this problem. Just get them enforced.
None of the above. The correct answer would be "length."
Volume is intensity, which is part of content. For a sign, the corresponding element would be brightness.
Space is space, the size in which you have to fit your content. For a commercial on TV or the radio, that's length. Print ads are sold by space; on-air ads are sold by length of time.
I got ya---Movies here have noise, or sound limits. they started with all that Lucas THX stuff, and star wars. People complained, so they enforced the ordnance. they now have sound meters monitoring them.You misunderstood the question. Your example, too, is about public nuisance. I'm talking about a blanket ban on sudden loud noises in movies, no matter where or what they're played on, no matter whether they can be heard outside the walls of the room being viewed in. That's what an "anti-loud commercial law" would be.
Meaning, no movie could contain sudden loud noises, at all.
That must be why my IQ is 146 and yours is most likely less than that.
Not equivalent because that would change the picture. Increasing the size of the exact same sign does nothing to change content but it makes it more visible, and blocks more of the rest of the landscape. Increasing the volume of a commercial does nothing to change the content, but blocks out more of the surrounding sound.
160-65, if you want to pull a ruler out, but no matter. :doh