World gone mad: Father's Day ads pulled from TV for being too 'political'

[mjk45]

Lawlight said:

mjk45 said:

the issue isn't about it being anti gay it's more to do with where it sits in this time of political ads being broadcast for the marriage debate ,so the channel decided to try to clear it up, because the govt failed to put into place advertising criteria for their second or some would argue  third  best solution.

So, it's not anti-gay and not political, so what is the issue?

The issue is it not defined, the original would have been covered by the electrol act in regards to adverising , the dept of statstics isn't covered by those laws so in the govt wanting to get this off the agenda they rushed this out without putting in any advertising guidlines , so instead we had a network trying to decide what constitutes a political message something that the agency incharge should have been empowered to do.