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UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by SanjayMehta »

fakedang wrote: post #118
ashconnor wrote: post #41

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Considering Labour's connection to gambling companies [0] probably not. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/28/tory...

Funny how you can buy British politicians for dirt cheap. In India or the US, it would take at least $100k-200k to get a single politician's attention at the bare minimum, while in the UK you can influence party positions for 25k quid.

In India one doesn’t just bribe a politician, one hires an expensive lawyer who “handles” the case.

The real bribery starts at the bottom of the pyramid.

Say you want a water connection. The rate is set on the size of the property, and each layer in the pyramid knows exactly how many square feet were approved and what their individual percentage will be.

And again, you can’t just bribe the fellow directly: you need to go through a trusted agent who acts as a cut-out between the briber and the bribed. This started after the Lok Ayukta started conducting raids. Who says our babus aren’t flexible and innovative?

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by lmm »

hermitcrab wrote: post #130
shric wrote: post #122

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The punter does not win on average with stocks due to fees and spread.

IIRC average stock market returns have historically been around 7% per year. Index funds charge around 1% per year. My stock ISAs have gone up pretty much every year (after inflation and fees).

> Index funds charge around 1% per year.

You're getting ripped off, you should be paying a small fraction of that.

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by SanjayMehta »

thanksgiving wrote: post #150
fakedang wrote: post #138

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Don't you need to donate at least $100k to influence senators or influence party positions in the US? Sure, you could "buy" a politician for cheaper, but you're not guaranteeing they will toe your line. India is ridiculously expensive - bribes often amount to 50 lakh rupees to 1 crore + rupees, which amounts to roughly $50k-100k per politician. Not to mention bribery at the lower rungs of the ladder where everyone fr…

That's not a good thing. From what I understand, a lot of "cheaper" bribes in India are for things that the government employees must do as a part of their jobs so like a bribe for these government employees to do their job basically which still filters up to the highest levels of government. Why would you agree to stick your neck out for something illegal on the cheap when you can wring the ordinary people to do you…

This is exactly how it works.

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by Funes- »

What about no ads, at all? Have you ever thought of that? Just stop and consider the ramifications of such a ban. Most junk on TV and the Internet would not exist once people were forced to pay directly for consuming (eugh) it. YouTube would go back to what it was almost twenty years ago, for one. Imagine a Google with no ad-ridden, SEO-tweaked, LLM-generated sites in the results, not a single mainstream media outlet to be seen... one can only dream. Now, for junk food (the actual subject of this thread), I wager its sales would be severely diminished, or heavily diversified between other, less successful brands, at least.

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Post by LeoPanthera »

thenickdude wrote: post #147
LeoPanthera wrote: post #45

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It's interesting that the UK has banned gambling ads online, but not on TV. Combined with the fact that they regulate cryptocurrencies as gambling, that's why you get no UK crypto ads online. For example, the PayPal UK front page doesn't even mention that you can buy crypto there.

You can buy crypto on PayPal?? Our New Zealand version doesn't mention it either.

Not in New Zealand. The USA, the UK, and Luxembourg only.

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by Retric »

rfrey wrote: post #189
emrah wrote: post #182

So UK doesn't have freedom of speech any more? If the products are bad for people/kids/etc, why not ban the products instead of just the ads?

Is it legal in the US to directly market cigarettes to children? Why not?

An interesting wrinkle in the cigarettes example is it’s illegal sell them to kids.

So advertising to kids is actively trying to conduct an illegal transaction.

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by NicuCalcea »

phyzix5761 wrote: post #116
WD-42 wrote: post #112

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> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job. If true why do cereal companies spend billions on advertising directly to children? For the fun of it?

I think its so children are open to eating it after the parents have bought it. If the food doesn't look appealing the parent will have to work harder but its the parents making the food choices not the child. Most of the time children don't even go to the grocery store with their parents.

So parents buy unhealthy food for their children without any prompting, and the kids need to have their minds opened to it by advertising, otherwise they wouldn't it?

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by Nullabillity »

throwaway2037 wrote: post #164
hinkley wrote: post #47

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Pensions sort of already are a lottery. Can’t collect if you’re dead. Live to 95 and they help a lot. Though inflation will still getcha in the end.

By this reasoning, isn't buying equities also gambling? Hint: It is not.

Why not?

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Post by NicuCalcea »

Retric wrote: post #196
rfrey wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it legal in the US to directly market cigarettes to children? Why not?

An interesting wrinkle in the cigarettes example is it’s illegal sell them to kids. So advertising to kids is actively trying to conduct an illegal transaction.

As far as I know, the US bans all tobacco advertising on TV. And obviously adults can still smoke.

Re: UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

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Post by EasyMark »

crowcroft wrote: post #87
Winblows11 wrote: post #6

What about adverts on YouTube and TikTok and other online platforms? I doubt kids/teenagers watch much TV at all these days.

It baffles me that more countries haven't put legislation in place to severely limit what ads can be served to under 18 year olds (or at least under 16). I worked in an ad agency a number of years ago, and Phillip Morris approached us with a deliberate plan to launch big budget ad campaigns on social media platforms specifically because they could get in front of younger demos more easily (traditional media having ex…

Probably because being tracked across all platforms is a bad idea in a democractic/liberal type of country, and not worth the "think of the children" argument. At some point parents have to take some responsibility.
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