| Tulipanzo said: Alright, so I've given the article a read and it seems this is another classic case of the "moral panic" over not much of anything. The article does go on a bit long, but essentially what happened was that a politically oriented group made an ad and failed to disclose it, as required by law; when the network notified them they decided they could make bank by crying "censorship" after pulling the ad themselves. The thing is that the political position of opposing same sex marriage is already quite muddied, with generic statements about "protecting the family" and other such nonsense. For a fun example: take the ad in question, add "Vote No" at the end. You have a text book example of the kind of ad they would run. Considering the group's vociferous anti-LGBT views, yeah, they probably should have put a disclaimer. What really should have set some alarms off, and something you all could, and should, have easily seen, is that no actual person or group is reported as being opposed to the ad, or as having reported it to the network. This is the same rubbish we should all be accustomed to from the days of DoA Extreme 3. Saying you're being "censored" and raking in the dough through greater exposure is a surefire tactic, and you all fell for it. I guess any chance is good to bash your straw-man, eh Aeolus451? Seems you're still looking for the stupidest banner, good luck! Anyway, I would expect everyone else to be a little more discerning, maybe read the article |
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.
