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The UK has a regulator and rules about commercial advertising, but last I checked neither apply to political advertising. In normal elections there's often a ro
by throwaway426079 8y ago
The UK has a regulator and rules about commercial advertising, but last I checked neither apply to political advertising. In normal elections there's often a row about some advert or other (eg the Tony Blair demon eyes poster) but nothing much comes of it.
In this case there is a widespread view that the referendum was decided by misinformed voters and activists are trying to intervene on that basis to halt Brexit.
- B1FF_PSUVM 8y ago> misinformed voters I have this notion that EU votes are repeated the number of times necessary to have the 'informed' result win.
- chubasco 8y agoAs an American, this is definitely what it looks like to me.
- derriz 8y agoReally? I suspect you have very little knowledge of the EU or how it works or its history. Here for example is an EU treaty, which took years to prepare and agree by the governments of all the countries but was abandoned after failing narrowly to pass referenda in France and the Netherlands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitution_for_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_establishing_a_Constitu...
- acheron 8y ago...and then was modified a tiny bit and passed anyway. That’s one of the most obvious examples of what they’re talking about.
- laurentl 8y agoWhereas in the US, the result of an election is decided by informed voters who don’t have to take into account what the majority of electors voted for. Much more efficient :D
- ionised 8y agoStill sour about that Google fine then?
- lostlogin 8y agoThere are very specific rules around political advertising. https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/roles-and-responsibilities/our-role-as-regulator-of-political-party-finances/making-an-allegation/what-we-regulate https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/our-work/roles-and-re...