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Tulipanzo said:
Aeolus451 said:

Oh really?

An ABA spokesperson told radioinfo:

The Act requires that political matter broadcast at the request of another person be appropriately 'tagged'. It is the broadcaster in the first instance who makes the assessment of whether the material being broadcast is 'political matter' broadcast at the request of another person.

https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/radio-disadvantaged-out-date-rules-political-advertising

It's up to FreeTV if it's political matter or not in spite of them trying to play it off as it's fault of BSA for this. 

The father's day commerical is not political at all and it's appropriate for the holiday. That's the truth. Someone at FreeTV likely knew of the group or was bothered by the commercial so they hit 'em with the tag bs after Dads4Kids turned in their ad for broardcasting in order to stop/censor the ad altogether. Also, Dads4Kids stated that they don't have the resources to recut the ad to include the tag. FreeTV could just the ad run as is if they wanted to since it's up to them if it's a political matter or not but nope they're acting like the stereotypical leftist trying to shut down opposing points of view from having a platform to speak. Hell, ya guys got your own stormtroopers (but they wear all black) running around attacking and disrupting any notable person of the right from speaking at colleges and at rallies.

So, FreeTV wanted the ad removed, which is why they asked to add a disclaimer, to which the group pulled the ad itself. What a cunning ploy.
I guess it's too much to ask that a political group running an ad about itself disclosed they are a political group.
It seems to me quite ridicolous that someone with the aim of "censoring" would even consider running the ad in the first place. 
I eagerly await your conspiracy theory explaining why.

Once again, this marketing is very easy to spot: nobody is reported as having complained about the ad, and the group itself somehow closed its site and Facebook page before receiving any complaints. If their story was truthful, surely that would have had happened after complaints had been made.
 

I know you enjoy squaring off against imaginary opponents, but I'm telling you, you are wasting your time. You aren't even in the right time zone to net these guys a profit.

 

P.S. Wow, you really want someone to hear how pissed off Antifa makes you, don't you? Try and be subtle at least.

The ad was a perfect father's day commercial. FreeTV disagreed with the commercial or the group itself. Either way they used a rule they didn't before to shut down the father's day commercial for father's day. They only had to delay it to fuck up the timing for the ad. It's a way to censor without openly doing it. None of this would have been a issue if they just played the ad. Anyone with some common sense realizes that commercials are not representive of the channel they air on and disclaimers in general are redundant.  

Pissed off? That's wishful thinking right there. You mistake me on antifa. I depise the idiots who make up it's ranks and their actions. Their whole cause is pointless because there's no "fascists" around. They are just using their slogans as a justification to attack and bully people who they disagree with politically. They are bigger hypocrites than BLM. The only positive side to them is that they are a blessing in disguise for the right. In that sense, they make me very happy.



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Flilix said:
mjk45 said:

The reason it's an issue is theres a postal plebascite vote on same sex marriage coming up and  bothsides have started add campaigns and we have had controversy due to false claims on the anti side , once the plebiscite is over then they will have their adds status be back to normal.

I understand that the tv channel didn't want the ad to be broadcasted, anything gay-related could bring them in trouble right now because people would blame them for picking sides.

It's not so much the broadcasters getting in trouble because it's ok , the trouble is the goverment wanted a plebiscite run by the electrol commission and that was defeated in the senate by opponents who saw the impact of the vitriol unleashed in irelands plebiscite so wanted a concious vote in parliament , something the minority but powerful conservative faction inside the ruling liberal party  where against, they then went for a postal plebiscite run by the department of statstistics , something that didn't need legislation to get around having a vote in parliament , the problem is unlike the electrol commission model whose electrol laws covering advertising would have covered the plebiscite , there is none for the new postal plebiscite ,so this failure to put safegaurds into the new plebiscite has meant that the broadcasters have been left holding the ball in what is an very immotive subject no matter your side.

On another note this might be for nought since the high court has to rule on it's legality.



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Birimbau said:
Autralia has become a leftist hellhole.

Do you live here like me or are you just into hyperbole.



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mjk45 said:
Birimbau said:
Autralia has become a leftist hellhole.

Do you live here like me or are you just into hyperbole.

I do and it is a leftist hellhole.



Chris Hu said:
Lawlight said:

You're the guy who said the right whines about anything right? Here's an example of liberals whining and having their way. So, nor surprised that you think it's not a big deal.

Also like a couple people already pointed out the left had nothing to do with the ads not aring.  The TV station decided not to run the ad because the group that made them has controversial stands and the ads didn't clearly state who made the ads.  

No, that's not true - the group was told to put a disclaimer because the message of the ad was political. It clearly is not. The media in Australia is very left leaning so, yes, the "progressives" probably have something to do with that.



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Chris Hu said:
Lawlight said:

You're the guy who said the right whines about anything right? Here's an example of liberals whining and having their way. So, nor surprised that you think it's not a big deal.

Lets see your a right winger and you further show your right wing mentality by making a big deal about something minor its  freaking TV ads most people ignore them anyway.

Both sides whine but as I said - only the left has power and gets its way. Ir you want I can give you further examples of bigger issues that the left has caused. You'd probably deny them being a big deal too though.



Flilix said:
mjk45 said:

The reason it's an issue is theres a postal plebascite vote on same sex marriage coming up and  bothsides have started add campaigns and we have had controversy due to false claims on the anti side , once the plebiscite is over then they will have their adds status be back to normal.

I understand that the tv channel didn't want the ad to be broadcasted, anything gay-related could bring them in trouble right now because people would blame them for picking sides.

What's anti-gay in the ads though?



Lawlight said:

 The media in Australia is very left leaning

Not really; News Corp are right wing and they own a large share of the printed press here such as the The Australian, the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, etc.



curl-6 said:
Lawlight said:

 The media in Australia is very left leaning

Not really; News Corp are right wing and they own a large share of the printed press here such as the The Australian, the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier Mail, etc.

They do not own any free-to-air TV channel. And looking at The Australian and the Herald Sun's articles - nothing suggests that they lean right. But print media is nothing compared to free-to-air TV.



Lawlight said:
mjk45 said:

Do you live here like me or are you just into hyperbole.

I do and it is a leftist hellhole.

Define "leftist"