2006-09-28 03:00:19 · 12 answers · asked by Lizzie K 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No. When they are too young to know any better, I am still the one that decides what gets bought, and when they are older, if I have done my job, they should be smart enough to see through hype.
You can't ban things in a free society, (I know Bush is trying to change that,) because they are inconvenient.
2006-09-28 03:03:27 · answer #1 · answered by capu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure, but I think that the only way to Constitutionally ban such advertisements is if they are deceptive or misleading. Jurisprudence regarding the First Amendment is pretty clear about the fact that you can't stop people from speech, even commercial speak, but commercial speak can be regulated. I think ads which tend to lead kids to have exaggerated hopes for products or sometimes seem to indicate that all of the products shown on the commercial will be included in a single package are fraudulent.
I would like to burn every McDonald's down though for their hybrid advertising, "The Happy-Meal."
2006-09-28 03:07:52 · answer #2 · answered by fortonmi 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Anyone living in UK can simply switch over to BBC children's programmes and thus avoid the problem of brainwashing TV ads.
NOTE: according to a pamphlet I read at the Morri-Poll office a few months ago, children as young as seven [7] have already formed their political belief system. Mind boggling.
2006-09-30 21:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, DEFINATLEY. for example, look at that american girl who got murdered in her own home, a man recently owend up to it, but was lieing andit wasnt him. the little girl was a "beauty" model padgant thing, dressing up in "slutty" clothes and make up caked all over her face. WHAT A DISGRACE. People are just catering for perverts out there, making a girl of 5/6/7 look like a ****, its outragious. They wonder why kids go missing. Its a joke. all this do your nails at home wtih this "barbie kit" krap, little girls are targetted more than boys, its not fair. they dont get a chance to grow properly. they are forever comparing themselves with pictures of girls whom are probably naturally thin and what have you, but there are very very few, so the rest of them, the not so pretty and a bit larger girls, want to follow and do anything to look like it. And who has to pay for all this stuff, parents. And some DUMB parents actually buy it for their little ones. its a joke. the government should stop advertisign to anyone under the age of a working age. after all, who will be paying for it.
oh advertising toys and stuff is fine, dont deprive kids of toys, but make up and clothes and modeling, it should all be banned. once and for all. then maybe, the level of kids getting molestered might decrease.
2006-09-28 03:08:36 · answer #4 · answered by london lady 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To get this immediately, toddlers choose issues, perfect? and also you want human beings to make those issues. and those human beings must be banned from promotion their product? it really is like tobacco. no longer undesirable sufficient to really ban the product, yet undesirable sufficient to limit promotion? it really is type of putting the cart earlier the pony, because it were. If authorities would not favor youthful toddlers eating quick nutrients, only ban quick nutrients, no longer talk out each and each area of the mouth.
2016-11-25 00:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
children are being brainwashed at a young age to become consumers - c
consuming goods in general is bad for the enviroment but good for the economy - what does it matter if we have a good economy if the air is so polluted we all get cancer? what will it matter if we have a good economy if farm land is so raped it cannot produce food any longer
we need to worry more about the enviorment and less about shopping - kids need to learn the truth
brainwashing kids to WANT stuff is never good - nothing worse than a greedy cry baby kid
2006-09-28 03:09:16 · answer #6 · answered by CF_ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not at all - because what happens when they arrive in the real world as adults?
Children need to learn the difference between 'good' and 'bad' and it is the parents who are responsible for teaching them.
2006-09-28 03:10:25 · answer #7 · answered by Chris G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-28 03:16:08 · answer #8 · answered by godsgrandad 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Very much so, but I also would like parents to regain the ability to pronounce the word "no".
2006-09-28 03:58:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what kind of advertising? Games, Disney land? Smoking? Can we narrow this down please?
2006-09-28 03:03:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋