Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
March 1st, 2011
A billboard proclaiming a pro-life message has been
taken down following
complaints. The advertisement was displayed in SoHo on behalf of the Life Always organisation. It
showed an African American child accompanied by the message: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb”. This was apparently based on statistics released by the New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, showing that there was a higher incidence of abortion amongst this racial group. The billboard was removed after people
complained that it was provocative.
September 6th, 2010
Classified ad site Craigslist has
closed its “Adult Services” section, after a campaign by 17 states to have it removed. Attorneys general
from Montana to Virginia wrote a letter to Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster last month, urging him to shut down the erotic ads section. The link has now been
blacked out and replaced with the word “censored”. The decision only affects the US version of the site. Craigslist has previously cited in its defence the federal
Communications Decency Act, which protects websites from liability for content posted by users. The company has not yet commented on the recent removal.
July 22nd, 2009
A sexually suggestive radio advertising campaign for Mattesons sausages has been criticised by the the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after recieving 21 complaints. It said the adverts, which asked listeners where they would like to “stick it”, should not have aired when children were likely to be listening. Read more
here
July 14th, 2009
Qantas airline has put a halt on online activist group GetUp’s latest anti-censorship campaign, refusing to run the “Censordyne” advert, which criticises the Australian government’s forthcoming Internet filtering scheme, on its flights. The group had planned to run the parody advert on all domestic flights into Canberra next month to ensure it was seen by politicians around the first sitting week of parliament. Read more
here
June 10th, 2009
The chief executive of leading drugs and humans rights charity Release today accused advertising regulators of censorship after the body’s ad campaign was withdrawn from London buses. Read more
here
March 12th, 2008
The Advertising Standards Agency has ordered a hair product commercial to be withdrawn as it risks causing ‘serious offence’ to Christians.
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