Certainly interesting stuff on the legal side but also depressing. Governments are just trying to control everything. It's also kind of a stupid approach to ban those sorts of adverts. Here's the thing, children don't have jobs and earn money. You'd probably be hard pressed to find any children going out with whatever pocket money they do get and buying breakfast cereals. If there's a childhood obesity issue that you want to solve, then perhaps start with the people that actually buy the food and give it to the children.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Certainly interesting stuff on the legal side but also depressing. Governments are just trying to control everything. It's also kind of a stupid approach to ban those sorts of adverts. Here's the thing, children don't have jobs and earn money. You'd probably be hard pressed to find any children going out with whatever pocket money they do get and buying breakfast cereals. If there's a childhood obesity issue that you want to solve, then perhaps start with the people that actually buy the food and give it to the children.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~