Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
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Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#2I don't think there should be a minimum legal age for any of these activities. It's beyond clear that coddling helicopter government invoked disastrous consequences for Western society
Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#3I don't think there should be a minimum legal age for any of these activities. It's beyond clear that coddling helicopter government invoked disastrous consequences for Western society
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Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#4I don't think there should be a minimum legal age for any of these activities. It's beyond clear that coddling helicopter government invoked disastrous consequences for Western society
Can you name some of those consequences in "western society" you believe were caused by "coddling helicopter gov't" actions, similar to regulating advertising addictive products to minors?
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#5The first smoking rejected vs approved ad figure showed two pictures of people with smoke coming out of their mouths rejected and then one picture of someone holding an electric cigarette that was approved. The e-cig wasn't recognizeable to me, I'm not sure if those are great comparisons.
And with the second figure - with the gambling, drinking, and dating ads, I don't really get how the final one could be construed absolutely as a dating ad. "Find your gentleman" could be a service for connecting polite but lonely friends.
If these are representative of ads that they got approved and disapproved I think their methodology was flawed. It would be easier to look at examples of advertisements that explicitly minor-owned accounts actually saw on their feed that advertise adult services.
Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#6I don't think there should be a minimum legal age for any of these activities. It's beyond clear that coddling helicopter government invoked disastrous consequences for Western society
Can you name some of those consequences in "western society" you believe were caused by "coddling helicopter gov't" actions, similar to regulating advertising addictive products to minors?
Yes. Society-wide we see an increased abdication of personal responsibility and general apathy. Increased mental illness. Severe feelings of loneliness and isolation brought about due to atomization by a government that's operated like a consultancy avoiding any liability or risk.
Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#7Unsurprising because FB is all about maximizing profits at society's expense. They'd happily get into human trafficking and child prostitution if they could get away with it. At this point, they have instead created hundreds of millions of attention addicts, outrage consumers, and manufactured sentiments for the purposes of commercial advertising. Oh, and the occasional genocide [0].
It's also curious that, to this day, cigarette companies target children even younger in developing nations. This also is terrible.
Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#8My prediction: there will never be a bottom for facebook.
Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#9The first smoking rejected vs approved ad figure showed two pictures of people with smoke coming out of their mouths rejected and then one picture of someone holding an electric cigarette that was approved. The e-cig wasn't recognizeable to me, I'm not sure if those are great comparisons. And with the second figure - with the gambling, drinking, and dating ads, I don't really get how the final one could be construed…
>"Find your gentleman" could be a service for connecting polite but lonely friends.
The money emoji and "gentlemen" is clearly associating it with sugar daddies. That would be universally understood in that age cohort, and in the higher part of that range, probably even clicked on often.
There's the more mild ads, sure, but the worse ones are really where the issues lie, like the blatant gambling ones.
Re: Facebook approves alcohol, vaping and gambling ads targeting 13-17 year olds
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you name some of those consequences in "western society" you believe were caused by "coddling helicopter gov't" actions, similar to regulating advertising addictive products to minors?
Yes. Society-wide we see an increased abdication of personal responsibility and general apathy. Increased mental illness. Severe feelings of loneliness and isolation brought about due to atomization by a government that's operated like a consultancy avoiding any liability or risk.
I'm curious which government regulation would cause increased mental illness/loneliness? I mean, I'm sure somewhere it's happening because of gov't, but to say it's the main contributor instead of problems like lack of access to good therapy, cultural shifts in how you talk to people, etc., in my mind seems largely a misplacement of blame.