‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban
"António Guterres called on news and tech media to stop enabling “planetary destruction” by taking #FossilFuelAdvertising money while warning the world faces “#climate crunch time” in its faltering attempts to stem the crisis."
"In general, #advertising restrictions must demonstrate that something about the campaign is false, misleading or illegal.
In theory, lawmakers could tackle #FossilFuelAds by requiring them to include warnings about the dangers they pose to the planet.
At the end of 2020, Cambridge, MA, became the first U.S. city to require labels on gas pumps warning of the risks that gasoline, ethanol and diesel pose to human health and the environment."
"Both [#Canada's] federal government and B.C.’s provincial government are facing increased pressure to put an end to misleading #FossilFuel#advertising."
New hot take after spending countless hours going through years of accumulated paperwork at my elderly uncle's: every mailing that is an advertisement should be required by law to have the words "this is an advertisement" printed on both sides of the envelope or postcard, with FTC enforcement power.
The quantity of deceptive, time-wasting mailings my uncle has received is appalling. This simple law would fix that. #ElderAbuse#scams#JunkMail#advertising
tomorrow, Trio Fadolín and I are playing a concert, for which the promoters decided to spring for a few days of FB ads via my FB band page - I'll be curious to see what effect that'll have on ticket sales and general awareness.
As someone from #Brazil, seeing how much influence the #SocialMedia (actually #advertising ) companies are exerting over social/political/economic themes with little to no accountability, the concept seems appealing.
Also, we have a gigantic talent pool and a lot of human potential strangled by this very centralization in Silicon Valley that steals talent away from the country or suppresses local competition.
“A new CR [Consumer Reports] study has found that the average study participant had their data shared to Facebook by 2,230 companies – not only a person’s online activity, but what they do offline as well: places visited, events attended, products ordered, and so on. Facebook and other platforms use this data to create profiles to target consumers with advertisements.” #privacy#Facebook#FTC#advertising
"It’s not just Big Tech that’s playing for all the marbles - it’s also the systems of democratic control and accountability. If Apple can sabotage the DMA’s insistence on taking away its veto over its customers’ software choices, that will spill over into the US Department of Justice’s case over the same issue, as well as the cases in Japan and South Korea."