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There's still a lot of discussion of this in the political discourse here in Norway, in fact I'd argue it's become increasingly more discussed as social media h

There's still a lot of discussion of this in the political discourse here in Norway, in fact I'd argue it's become increasingly more discussed as social media have taken over. Just recently, a law was passed requiring advertising that is edited to significantly change the physical appearance of people, to marked as such. One of the most common practices is editing to make a model's boobs look bigger, or her figure more hourglass-like. Removing skin blemishes is another. Details in the requirements are being ironed out right now, but I think this is a good example of a fairly simple regulation that should help improve things. It will become too expensive to try to do this kind of editing within the limits due to red tape, and the practice should go away almost completely in time. There's a lot more to be done in the ad, modelling, cosmetics, fashion, entertainment and tech(social media) industries to combat this though. But this kind of photoshopping practice is very harmful because it serves to amplify all of the other harmful signalling.

MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Just recently, a law was passed requiring advertising that is edited to significantly change the physical appearance of people, to marked as such. This makes so much sense, I can't believe I've never thought of it. We do this on boxes of breakfast cereal, why not fashion magazines too?
mensetmanusman 4y ago
The iPhone selfie camera changes the physical appearance of the user to appear more attractive. I wonder if every selfie will have to have a notifier.
- jeffdn 4y ago
  That's not advertising though -- the commenter stated that the scope of the law was for edited photos in advertisements.
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
  No, that would be a a clear violation of freedom of speech. Advertising is an act of speech, but it is also an act of trying to get someone to buy something, and that act can be constrained by law. If you wanted to regulate the iPhone camera issue, I suppose regulating Apple would be the only way to go about it, though I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.
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MichaelCollins 4y ago

> Just recently, a law was passed requiring advertising that is edited to significantly change the physical appearance of people, to marked as such. This makes so much sense, I can't believe I've never thought of it. We do this on boxes of breakfast cereal, why not fashion magazines too?

mensetmanusman 4y ago

The iPhone selfie camera changes the physical appearance of the user to appear more attractive. I wonder if every selfie will have to have a notifier.

jeffdn 4y ago
That's not advertising though -- the commenter stated that the scope of the law was for edited photos in advertisements.
mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
No, that would be a a clear violation of freedom of speech. Advertising is an act of speech, but it is also an act of trying to get someone to buy something, and that act can be constrained by law. If you wanted to regulate the iPhone camera issue, I suppose regulating Apple would be the only way to go about it, though I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not.

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