UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers

Post by crowcroft » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 4:35 PM UTC

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That’s the other thing as well, we need to spend more time upholding laws that already exist instead of getting distracted with these weird news publisher content regulations like Canada has.

And Programmatic advertising makes this extremely difficult. Once you add a giant, automated ad exchange to advertising you've created opaque supply chains that help make it trivial to obfuscate who actually makes money from an ad. This article on ad fraud goes into more detail: https://xenoss.io/blog/programmatic-ad-fraud-detection

Post by BenjiWiebe » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 4:45 PM UTC

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Then you get bacteria in the ground part, potentially, whereas a steak will be cooked on all the exposed surfaces.

Um, it’s beef. It can be eaten raw. Ever heard of carpaccio?!? Only two reasons to ever cook beef: (1) taste (2) quality

Post by robertlagrant » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 5:03 PM UTC

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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.

Post by petesergeant » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 5:24 PM UTC

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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…

> wherever you’ve pulled that from A dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dictiona... 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?

Post by BehindBlueEyes » Mon, Dec 09, 2024, 5:35 PM UTC

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I think a fair and reasonable advertisement policy is to ban all advertisements during "children's programming hours", or 0800 to 1600 when school is not in session. During "Prime Time" hours of 0500-0800 and 1600-2300, adverts should be limited to luxury goods (e.g., fashion), government PSAs, and non-addictive goods or services (NO drugs, NO tobacco, NO gambling, and NO stock trading, to name but a few). Between 23…

Children are the people least able to destroy their own lives through spending, so that feels pretty backwards. I think it's generally accepted that people who grow up around e.g. alcohol tend to have a healthier relationship with it than people who are suddenly exposed to it as an adult.