A good start would be a ban on ads based on who is viewing the ad vs what the content surrounding the ad is... So, Casper mattress wants to have an ad spot in a podcast or a YouTube video in the video itself? That's ok. YouTube wants to include an ad about a mattress in a video about home renovation? Also ok. Stack overflow wants to show an ad for GitHub? Is ok to me. YouTube wants to show an ad about Casper mattress…
I was joking, but I think you make my point better.
Those parents need to find solutions that don't involve forcing their morality on others. Thats how we get xenophobic and homophobic people voting to control women's bodies because they think others should do whatever they believe is moral and right.
> Those parents need to find solutions that don't involve forcing their morality on others I believe forbidding these ads is morally good, but it's not just morality. It's knowledge backed by studies: - children are easily influenced - burgers cause public health issues that harm the individuals, and cost greatly to the society in healthcare It's not a stance like "I believe women should not abort because God" (to ta…
Case in point for why socialized medicine leads to government overreach in many other facets of our lives.
Milton Friedman had a great point during this talk [1], same argument from 50 years ago.
Is there a name for an ideology that says all social and economic problems can be solved through mass psychology? You could call it psychohistory perhaps, but there's got to be a newer term. Seems like it's the dominant ideology of a variety of technocrats. Yes there are psychological aspects to governance but more and more it's becoming the only solution to all problems. Obesity is skyrocketing? It's the psychology.…
... I mean, in this case, it's a problem being _caused_ by mass psychology (that's what advertising is).
Help me understand. The UK government basically said that parents are not responsible enough to make dietary decisions for their children so the government needs to step in and do it for them? Does that not seem like an overreach? Its not like 4 year olds are driving to McDonald's by themselves and ordering burgers. The parents are the ones being targeted here.
>The UK government basically said that parents are not responsible enough to make dietary decisions for their children so the government needs to step in and do it for them?
Stand outside any school gate in the UK and you will see that the majority of parents "aren't responsible enough to make dietary decisions for their children".
I'm fairly relaxed about it simply because this is a response to the behaviour of these corporations.
Help me understand. The UK government basically said that parents are not responsible enough to make dietary decisions for their children so the government needs to step in and do it for them? Does that not seem like an overreach? Its not like 4 year olds are driving to McDonald's by themselves and ordering burgers. The parents are the ones being targeted here.
... No, that's not what it says at all.
The level of reading comprehension on this website really is astonishingly low. It's about restrictions on advertising, not bans on products.
That seems the definition of pension. You may be thinking of something else. pension a regular income paid by a government or a financial organization to someone who no longer works, usually because of their age or health
The first line of the Wikipedia article on pensions is more accurate than wherever you’ve pulled that from: > A pension (/ˈpɛnʃən/; from Latin pensiō 'payment') is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work. A pension is a financial instrument. There’s no need to purchase an annuity, which m…
The wikipedia definition is strange. A pension is not a fund. A pension fund is a fund! (There is also a wikipedia page for that!)
Apart from that how is “regular income paid by to someone who no longer works“ different from “periodic payments made to support the person's retirement from work” anyway?
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…
My kid recently got a second hand iPad tablet. On it, she uses YouTube Kids. I made an account for her. Now, they ask _me_ for consent, since she cannot legally give it. They throw ads at her about toys, but this is illegal in my country to target children with ads. Ads are supposed to target parents, not kids. Now, if it were one ad at start, I'd hate it, but they go further: in a 10-minute movie, the thing quits like 3 times to show my kid an ad. She barely has the attention span to watch the bloody vid! You know why they do it? Not because it is legal; because they get away with it. Law is irrelevant if it isn't uphold.
Can we have one or several months without ads of any kind? Perhaps then we can appreciate a world without ads more. It might also reduce the environmental burden of overconsumption.
It is amazing when you visit a city that has banned billboards especially when coming from one that does not. It's the same (opposite) feeling you get when watching an ad free streaming service and the switch to live TV or Prime. Which is just like switching to a browser with out uBO. If society went 30 days with a universal uBO experience, I think all wars would end, cats & dogs sleeping together, shields would beco…
Every once in a while I end up with a browser without adblocker. It baffles me how anyone would want to use the WWW like that. I cannot fathom, they're missing out, but at the end: those people plus the ones paying for services (which is sometimes me) are financing the platforms.