Re:Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
by maxxxxx on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:36PM
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I was referring to the political difficulty and courage needed. If you can ban the F word you can also ban junk food ads. Same thing. Nobody can talk about first amendment or other concerns.
Re:Cancer Doctors Cite Risks of Drinking Alcohol
by dragonwriter on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:42PM
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> I was referring to the political difficulty and courage needed. If you can ban the F word you can also ban junk food ads.
That's even more wrong than the more literal version: restricting unpopular words takes zero political courage and has very little difficulty (and, in fact, provides political cover for advertiser-friendly actions commercial outlets would be inclined to take on their own.)
Banning advertisement that established moneyed interests engage in, OTOH, faces actual political difficulty.
Those two things are pretty much completely unrelated. It is certainly bad for children to be exposed to deliberate behavior-mabipulation efforts pushing unhealthy food choices, but that's not in any way related to whether or not it's bad for them to hear words currently viewed as naughty.