There are so many idiotic laws and regulations being passed or under consideration that Simon Black can run a week column detailing them. From Simon Black at sovereignman.com:
Here’s our Friday roll up of the most absurd and concerning articles we came across this week.
UK bans advertisement with “harmful gender stereotypes”
UK bureaucrats will now decide if ads and commercials are too offensive.
New regulations ban advertisements with gender stereotypes “that are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offence.”
So a woman cleaning while a man is being lazy– banned.
Suggesting a poor physique caused other failures– banned.
Emphasizing energetic boys compared to caring girls– banned.
It seems that, in 2019, consumers are far more capable of regulating a company’s advertising decisions.
If people don’t like a company’s ads, they’re free to boycott the product. And if enough companies catch grief over their ads, they’ll change the ads or go out of business.
Having a government commission to regulate this sort of thing is going to be simply comical.
We have a feeling this isn’t what the Brexiters had in mind when they voted to leave.
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