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Should government prohibit broacasters from airing commercials that lack diversity?

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One of my family members posted this link (below) on Facebook. I was surprised to see that England is, apparently, prohibiting the airing of some commercials for being deemed as non-inclusive (exclusive). Is this really necessary? As an American and, beyond prohibiting porn, violence, etc. being broadcast on the public airways, I don't want government getting involved in stuff like this. How about you?

PC Specialist Ad Banned in UK Because it Doesn’t Feature Women – Summit News

Apparently, the commercial, which features a white man, a black man and an Asian man, isn’t diverse enough. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority cracked down on the ad after just eight offended morons complained. Despite PC Specialist’s core market being 87.5% male, the fact that their commercial isn’t politically correct enough was its undoing.
 
sounds really ridiculous to me
 
Nope ! It's called FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The left doesn't know what that means but Normal Americans do.:2usflag:
 
macbeth said:
Nope ! It's called FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The left doesn't know what that means but Normal Americans do.:2usflag:
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dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

England doesn't have freedom of speech, so this has nothing to do with it. another single minded right wing troll taking steaming piles of **** on a forum
 
Sampson Simpson said:
dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.

England doesn't have freedom of speech, so this has nothing to do with it. another single minded right wing troll taking steaming piles of **** on a forum
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Are you Crying? Did this offend you? If it did, you must be a Snowflake. Ask your Mom if it's dinner time yet, so you can come up from her basement.
 
Sounds like a functionary is justifying his/her existence.
 
I personally prefer to see women in commercials, especially hot Swedish women. If their core target marketing is 87% geared toward men, hot babes is the way to reach that market. Guys don't want to watch guys. Throw a monkey into that hot babe commercial and you'll have every man in the country watching. Jeeeeze, I should be in marketing.
 
Yeah, let's make sure the next Tampax commercial shows men buying them.
 
K9Buckeye said:
One of my family members posted this link (below) on Facebook. I was surprised to see that England is, apparently, prohibiting the airing of some commercials for being deemed as non-inclusive (exclusive). Is this really necessary? As an American and, beyond prohibiting porn, violence, etc. being broadcast on the public airways, I don't want government getting involved in stuff like this. How about you?

PC Specialist Ad Banned in UK Because it Doesn’t Feature Women – Summit News

Apparently, the commercial, which features a white man, a black man and an Asian man, isn’t diverse enough. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority cracked down on the ad after just eight offended morons complained. Despite PC Specialist’s core market being 87.5% male, the fact that their commercial isn’t politically correct enough was its undoing.
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Technically it is a non-governmental organization that is advertising industry self-regulation.
 
I can't remember was the commercial is for, but was upset that one TV advertisement highlighted racism. It showed opposite couples and the words "Too ____" in various scenes. One of them was "Too different." The scene was a black woman and white man sleeping together. I would ban it.
 
Drawdown said:
Technically it is a non-governmental organization that is advertising industry self-regulation.
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So it turns out this was actually just the free market doing its thing. Wonder how the right wing outrage is going to go with next.
 
Drawdown said:
Technically it is a non-governmental organization that is advertising industry self-regulation.
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Actually there are FCC standards that regulate what can and cannot be seen on public television. They even regulate how loud commercials can be, if that gives you an idea about who controls what. No network is going to knowingly air advertising that will violate FCC rules.
 
What's wrong with diversity and mirroring consumers?
 
K9Buckeye said:
One of my family members posted this link (below) on Facebook. I was surprised to see that England is, apparently, prohibiting the airing of some commercials for being deemed as non-inclusive (exclusive). Is this really necessary? As an American and, beyond prohibiting porn, violence, etc. being broadcast on the public airways, I don't want government getting involved in stuff like this. How about you?

PC Specialist Ad Banned in UK Because it Doesn’t Feature Women – Summit News

Apparently, the commercial, which features a white man, a black man and an Asian man, isn’t diverse enough. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority cracked down on the ad after just eight offended morons complained. Despite PC Specialist’s core market being 87.5% male, the fact that their commercial isn’t politically correct enough was its undoing.
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No only no, but **** no!
 
macbeth said:
Are you Crying? Did this offend you? If it did, you must be a Snowflake. Ask your Mom if it's dinner time yet, so you can come up from her basement.
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Interesting...insulting and name-calling from you, yet no actual refutation of his point in your post.

Macbeth: a man who is a traitor to his king by killing Duncan, kills his friend Banquo and all of Macduff's family, becomes a tyrant over Scotland, incurs God's wrath and is unable to sleep due to his lust for personal power over all who live in Scotland and ultimate succumbs to madness and personal disgrace before letting himself be killed....interesting name to call yourself with. I wonder why you chose that...do you think that what Shakespearean character did is laudable, or did you simply feel that the name sounded bad-a$$ to you?
 
Risky Thicket said:
Actually there are FCC standards that regulate what can and cannot be seen on public television. They even regulate how loud commercials can be, if that gives you an idea about who controls what. No network is going to knowingly air advertising that will violate FCC rules.
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The OP isn't about the US or the FCC
 
K9Buckeye said:
One of my family members posted this link (below) on Facebook. I was surprised to see that England is, apparently, prohibiting the airing of some commercials for being deemed as non-inclusive (exclusive). Is this really necessary? As an American and, beyond prohibiting porn, violence, etc. being broadcast on the public airways, I don't want government getting involved in stuff like this. How about you?

PC Specialist Ad Banned in UK Because it Doesn’t Feature Women – Summit News

Apparently, the commercial, which features a white man, a black man and an Asian man, isn’t diverse enough. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority cracked down on the ad after just eight offended morons complained. Despite PC Specialist’s core market being 87.5% male, the fact that their commercial isn’t politically correct enough was its undoing.
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I’m betting dollars to donuts this is either a completely fake story , so edited it might as well be fake or an onion/satire story meant to make conservatives look stupid when they believe it.

American Conservatives will believe anything the establishment tells them, so these ridiculous stories tend to make the rounds on conservatives media..

My favorite personally was “kid arrested for wearing shirt with image of a gun on it”.

Lol in reality he had on a tea party shirt when all political t-shirts were banned (had nothing to do with the gun image in the first place) at his school.

Then when asked to reverse his shirt, it escalated to him assaulting both the principal and the school cop....for which he was arrested..


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K9Buckeye said:
One of my family members posted this link (below) on Facebook. I was surprised to see that England is, apparently, prohibiting the airing of some commercials for being deemed as non-inclusive (exclusive). Is this really necessary? As an American and, beyond prohibiting porn, violence, etc. being broadcast on the public airways, I don't want government getting involved in stuff like this. How about you?

PC Specialist Ad Banned in UK Because it Doesn’t Feature Women – Summit News

Apparently, the commercial, which features a white man, a black man and an Asian man, isn’t diverse enough. The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority cracked down on the ad after just eight offended morons complained. Despite PC Specialist’s core market being 87.5% male, the fact that their commercial isn’t politically correct enough was its undoing.
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Whenever something that sounds just ridiculous that requires for dozens of professional business types to sign off on the ridiculous thing for it to have happened and the ridiculous thing is not even making anyone a profit, usually it is fake clickbait BS..


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Mortician said:
sounds really ridiculous to me
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It sounds ridiculous to anyone..

Which is why I bet it is satire to make conservatives look stupid when they believe it, or a conservative propaganda piece meant to hype up the sheeple who will believe anything..

If it sounds to crazy to be true, and your source is a conservative conspiracy site......

Duh.


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Bullseye said:
No only no, but **** no!
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I’m betting it is a fake story meant to hype up the morons...

There is a reason Fox News is not playing it on a loop.


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K9Buckeye said:
One of my family members posted this link (below) on Facebook. I was surprised to see that England is, apparently, prohibiting the airing of some commercials for being deemed as non-inclusive (exclusive). Is this really necessary? As an American and, beyond prohibiting porn, violence, etc. being broadcast on the public airways, I don't want government getting involved in stuff like this. How about you?
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Why do you accept government restrictions on fictional depictions of sex or violence but not government restrictions on fictional depictions of discrimination? Isn’t the purpose essentially the same in both cases, avoiding the perceived promotion of negative and harmful behaviours?

I’m honestly not sure about the UK ASA regulations and how they’ve being implemented to date but I think they’re in a no win scenario and I can at least understand what they’re trying to achieve.

Incidentally, you could have chosen a better news source for the topic and not one that casually calls people “morons” for complaining about an advert. Hardly mature and unbiased reporting of the facts.
 
AlphaOmega said:
Thats not a problem with the millenials the dems have raised. Manpons would make millions now.
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Those are called adult diapers, far more popular among boomers, and therefore more popular among conservatives.
 
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