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Do you understand how selfish you sound, or has the magic of parenthood vaporized all of your self-awareness? You made the choice to have a child. You made the

Do you understand how selfish you sound, or has the magic of parenthood vaporized all of your self-awareness? You made the choice to have a child. You made the choice to entertain them with YouTube. The possibility of them seeing an advertisement for alcohol (my goodness! Your son will turn into a tattooed hooligan in a week!) is not sufficient reason for handing the internet over to state censorship. In short, stop trying to make society raise your kid for you. Give independence and self-responsibility a try, you might like it.

DanBC 10y ago
You don't seem to understand the context: In the UK internet advertising is already censored, and has been for some years. In the UK advertisers are forbidden from advertising alcohol to children. Here's the regulators page for adverts aimed at children: https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Children-and-advertising.aspx#.WAeu31QrK00 https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Children-an... Here's their page for adverts about alcohol (note that some of those ads were online): https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Alcohol.aspx#.WAeu5lQrK00 https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Alcohol.asp... There's currently a gap in regulation. App makers have apps targeted at children (and with an age range of eg 4+); those apps carry ads; those ad networks use information about the phone owner to decide the age suitability of ad. This loophole is likely to close in 2017 or 2018
- icebraining 10y ago
  I can't help but find amusing their statistic that "30% of young people have been bothered by an ad in the last 12 months". I don't know about the UK, but at least here down south, the really disturbing ads are the official ones, particularly the safe driving campaigns. The Spanish ads in particular are often very graphic and gut-wrenching. I do agree that apps (or videos) directed at children shouldn't show non-child-safe ads. I just don't see what does that have to do with the proposal under discussion.

DanBC 10y ago

You don't seem to understand the context: In the UK internet advertising is already censored, and has been for some years. In the UK advertisers are forbidden from advertising alcohol to children. Here's the regulators page for adverts aimed at children: https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Children-and-advertising.aspx#.WAeu31QrK00 https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Children-an... Here's their page for adverts about alcohol (note that some of those ads were online): https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Alcohol.aspx#.WAeu5lQrK00 https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Hot-Topics/Alcohol.asp... There's currently a gap in regulation. App makers have apps targeted at children (and with an age range of eg 4+); those apps carry ads; those ad networks use information about the phone owner to decide the age suitability of ad. This loophole is likely to close in 2017 or 2018

icebraining 10y ago
I can't help but find amusing their statistic that "30% of young people have been bothered by an ad in the last 12 months". I don't know about the UK, but at least here down south, the really disturbing ads are the official ones, particularly the safe driving campaigns. The Spanish ads in particular are often very graphic and gut-wrenching. I do agree that apps (or videos) directed at children shouldn't show non-child-safe ads. I just don't see what does that have to do with the proposal under discussion.