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London mayor plans negative body image advert ban on Tube, buses and trains
BBC News ^
| 6/13/2016
Posted on 06/13/2016 9:17:50 AM PDT by orchestra
Adverts promoting negative body images will be banned across the Transport for London (TfL) network from next month.
As part of his mayoral election manifesto Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting "unhealthy or unrealistic" body images.
The advertising watchdog received 378 complaints in 2015 about a weight-loss advert that asked customers if they were "beach body ready?"
Mr Khan has now asked TfL to set up its own advertising steering group.
The Protein World "beach body ready" promotional posters were defaced in Tube stations and a petition was started calling for the adverts to be banned, however the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) watchdog later ruled the advert depicting a bikini-clad female model was neither offensive nor irresponsible.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: ads; london; mayor; muslimworld; sadiqkhan
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:17:50 AM PDT
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orchestra
To: orchestra
Nothing better to spend taxpayer $$ on
To: orchestra
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:21:30 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: orchestra
He banned them because it showed pics of women not covered in a Burqa.
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:22:02 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: orchestra
hey let’s make a sand negroe “mayor!” We’re good people
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:22:26 AM PDT
by
ghosthost
To: orchestra
so now it’s offensive to show pictures of healthy people?
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:22:53 AM PDT
by
TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
To: orchestra
when I first started reading the article I assumed the add would show some obese girl in a bikini which was offensive!
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:23:37 AM PDT
by
TexasFreeper2009
(You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
To: 2banana
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:26:38 AM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
To: orchestra
Ban ban ban.... leftys favorite word
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:30:11 AM PDT
by
GregoTX
To: orchestra
She needs to eat a few cheeseburgers IMHO.
I have a relative with anorexia. Media images of thin models are not the whole story on anorexia but undoubtedly do have an effect.
To: Ryan Ruck
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:35:27 AM PDT
by
timestax
(American Media = Domestic Enemy)
To: orchestra
“As part of his mayoral election manifesto Sadiq Khan pledged to ban adverts promoting “unhealthy or unrealistic” body images.”
Certain types of people like “manifestos” apparently and it always takes us to the same place.
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:35:39 AM PDT
by
Roman_War_Criminal
(God is a racist! Get over it snowflakes. Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Romans 9:13-15)
To: orchestra
Will body images like this be banned too? If so, I may be for it.
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:35:46 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Every time I see his smug little face, I want to dump that hot chocolate on his crotch and dance to the music of his screams.
To: orchestra
Put a burka on her, your honor.
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:47:39 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
To: orchestra
Well, there are advantages to brawnier women...as long as you don't fall in.
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posted on
06/13/2016 9:52:50 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Future Snake Eater
To: Future Snake Eater
Every time I see his smug little face...He looks a little like one of my ex-neighbor's kids. Not gay, but a NYC liberal metrosexual.
To: orchestra
They need to replace the pic with a pic of that libertarian Weeks who did the striptease at the Libertarian convention last month. That should help sell their product!!
To: moovova
Very funny! Looks comfortable.
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posted on
06/13/2016 10:46:31 AM PDT
by
orchestra
((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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