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Pinterest isn't condoning morbid obesity. They're stopping adverts for things that are pretty much always a scam. Besides, unregulated weight loss pills bought
by onion2k 5y ago
Pinterest isn't condoning morbid obesity. They're stopping adverts for things that are pretty much always a scam.
Besides, unregulated weight loss pills bought over the internet aren't a solution for weight loss. For a start you have no idea what's in them. They can range from ineffective fake medicine to actively harmful and dangerous amphetamines. If someone wants to lose weight there are better, safer ways to go about it. Banning adverts is a good start to prompting people to seek better solutions.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoIf that's the case, why don't they say that? There are a lot of words in this which are lifted from the fat-acceptance movement talking points. You'll note, as mentioned in tfa, that things like weight-loss pills and before/after imagery were already against the site's policy.
- unishark 5y agoI would think it's more the fact that targeting diet ads to obese people is just creepy and obnoxious, because pretty much all ad targeting tends to be creepy and obnoxious. Though I agree with others that their statement was kind of overly-political. Are they going to ban skinny models from all ads next?