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>My mistake I guess. Not really. There just seems to be more than one meaning, and we were each aware of different ones. The meaning might vary by country (I am in the UK).
It was a mistake because I got downvoted by issuing a correct statement (if punter is interpreted as a gambler). I am from the UK but moved to Australia about 35 years ago
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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I expect a lot of pushback from the new u.s administration about any online regulations.
The regulation would apply to the UK. UK brands and goods sold in the UK, by established/registered companies the UK. Not possible to sell any retail goods of the sorts w/o a registration in the UK, so stopping them advertising won't be hard. I don't think US administration would be able to do anything, much like GDPR.
> I don't think US administration would be able to do anything, much like GDPR.
We live in a different world to the mid-late 2010s. For better or worse, I'm fairly confident Musk and Zuckerberg will have input on US trade policy on these issues.
What about adverts on YouTube and TikTok and other online platforms? I doubt kids/teenagers watch much TV at all these days.
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more so in the past, there was a lot more food advertising directed at kids, because the thought was that kids could annoy their parents enough to drag the whole family to an establishment. and some marketing tricks work a lot better on children because of their social settings and general impulsiveness (e.g. "All the cool kids have Lunchables")
The milky bar kid is strong and tough The red car and the blue car had a race Turn the milk chocolatey Keep hunger locked up tip lunch I have tried to avoid adverts for 20 years, but the adverts of my childhood (not just ones aimed at kids - autoglass repair and replace, safe style do buy one get one free, dfs sale ends Sunday, ronseal quick drying wood stain does exactly what it says on the tin) The brainwashing is…
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Indeed. It has been heavily covered in Private Eye, as well. Labour is deeply in hock to the gambling industry. So much for "gambling is the curse of the working class".
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And how is that going?
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It's ground beef. The rule is you must cook it to the proper internal temperature. This is reasonable food safety. This simply precludes medium as an option. If they grind their own meat or use something like ground chuck or ground round you can get it medium.
Why is ground chuck safer than other ground beef?
The problem is that this is more expensive and time consuming so almost no one actually does this in a commercial setting. If you tell me you do this when I come over to your home cook-out I will possibly trust you to serve me a burger with some pink in it, but if your restaurant tries to sell a $6 burger that you let someone order medium-rare bad things are going to eventually happen...
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"This government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online .", it's a quote from the article, it's very likely they'd ban ads targeted at children.
For Youtube often the content is an ad too. Will Google need to stop serving huge swaths of content to the UK at certain times? Hope so!
Kids entertainment has almost always been ads.
Disney movies are marketing for toys. Same with TV shows and cartoons.
A good move but it's still mad to me that we're banning junk food ads while fossil fuel ads are still allowed which are creating damage many orders of magnitudes greater than a muffin ever could.
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Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf. Even if the majority of citizens agreed that forcing their morality on the minority is the right thing to do I still disagree because individual freedom is more important than majority opinion.
> I still disagree because individual freedom is more important than majority opinion. this read suspiciously like a stereotypical US opinion regarding individual rights vs rights of the majority. so i went and looked through your comment history and i now i suspect even more strongly that you are US based. > Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most mo…
Good. Majorities shouldn't be able to steamroller minorities.