cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1891139
Archived version: https://archive.ph/OvFse
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230825144949/https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/23/billboards-featuring-onlyfans-model-ruled-not-overtly-sexual-by-uk-advertising-watchdog
What an incredibly European headline.
This is why I love America, the first amendment is dope.
Edit: It’s hilarious to see the usual Lemmy leftists spazzing out in the replies. A lot of them is just them being made about grooming being banned in certain contexts, but the only thing they’re materially wrong is about the general state of physical displays in America as a whole. The local policies of Florida for example aren’t nationalized, they’re locally specific to the state of Florida exclusively.
Meanwhile the US bans books for being too sexual
The US doesn’t ban shit, individuals hand down mandates to public institutions that then tell them to go fuck themselves.
Not paying attention to anything happening right now, are you?
Oh, I am well aware that people in the US are banning books. There’s a culture war against libraries… but the US, as an institution, doesn’t ban anything. Saying otherwise is disinformation at its finest.
The US is a collection of institutions. If you go back to 1980 and find that every single individual republic of the Soviet Union is censoring The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (wild and nonsensical example), except for Latvia, you should still say that the USSR is censoring The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
In schools. There is such thing as curated material for children. You can call it ban, but do you want, for example, pornography available to anyone in elementary school library? Or Mein Kampf?
Public libraries are different thing. No books are banned there.
*Mein Kampf
Thanks, corrected.
Please don’t lie to other countries. We’ve had several articles of libraries getting attacked by state legislature. Especially in Florida.
Does it really matter what level of government is doing it if the end result is the same.
The US does not ban books outright but they do ban some of them from public libraries, especially school libraries, and for good reason.
What’s the good reason to ban a book? Because it makes you think?
There aren’t any.
Christ, no. “Making you think” is kinda the whole reason books exist, so I don’t know why you would think that?
Probably because your previous comment said that books are banned “for good reason”
It also said “public libraries” which the comment I replied to (intentionally) omitted.
It’s a bad faith argument. They want to intentionally conflate removing books from children’s libraries with banning them from the country altogether.
If an onlyfans ad was on a park bench in the US it would be hung up in the courts for years and people would be sued for tainting their conservative Christian beliefs. It would be removed, and replaced with an NRA ad.
Ha, you think a billboard in the US can put whatever they want? Try putting up a nude picture (trying to think of something that would be considered “overtly sexual”) and seeing how long it stays up.
“Los Angeles Apparel” billboards.
Which is on the level with this. I fail to see what this proves. You can’t even breastfeed in public and many public libraries don’t even allow the mention of gender. You think they’ll allow a nipple on a billboard? The US is waaaaay behind Europe who has had nudity in public TV (with limitations, but far less restrictive than the US). I’d like to see more liberal rules on speech, but for now they’ll continue to be more conservative due to various sects of people in this country.
Erm… You misjudge the implications here I think. You may read this as “Attack on free speech”, but you know how Europeans are likely to read it?
“American moral outrage bullshit tried to take hold in UK but was stopped in court”
Oh look another American who doesn’t understand the first amendment
America seems to be a complete cluster fuck shithole of a country lately. The rest of the world is pretty dire but America seems to take the lead. When you elected a corrupt media personality to lead who is now being charged with election fraud and multiple other crimes where he tried to install himself as a dictator and a large portion of the population not only lap up his bullshit but are ready to outright kill people in his name and still believe he did nothing wrong is all the proof needed. The grooming by the church, the grooming by republicans etc just sounds awful. Now admittedly I don’t live there and my only insight is from stories that make national headlines I have to believe it’s not as bad as it sounds, but the majority of sane Americans I talk to don’t give me much hope. Not claiming that where I am in the world is much better, but we can still say at least it’s not as bad as America.
European/Canadian spotted lol
Teaching kids about reality isn’t grooming. That usually happens in church.