Anti human nature.
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has once again been doing its very best to prove what a massive joke it really is. Following just two complaints they were able to ban a TV advert for the video game “Stranglehold”.
As if in an attempt to compete with the anti-liberal BBFC, the ASA stated their reason for the ban was that the advert, “suggested that it was honourable to seek revenge and that violence was an acceptable solution to a situation.” What the ASA failed to realise is that far more graphics adverts for films are regularly shown on TV. This seems to further emphasise the fact that these associations are not only anti-free speech, but totally bias against video games in any form. Next they’ll be trying to ban Mario because it encourages you to take magic mushrooms!
These claims by the ASA also create a contradiction so huge that it could cause a rift in the time-space continuum. If humanity creates violent entertainment and people go out and buy it, then surely this is what people want. Evidently we see some kind of strange inconsistency here, where humans ban the very things they create. The very fact the ASA exists also seems to suggest that humans are incapable of making decisions for themselves and therefore need someone else to do it.
Censorship just doesn’t work…
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Another well-made point about the folly and evils of censorship.
And while your point about people having the ability to choose what they watch is good, the ASA aren’t really contradicting themselves, because people don’t choose which adverts are rammed down their throats.
Don’t forget too that they insult people’s intelligences by banning adverts like this. Their mindset is “people see violence represented as acceptable therefore they will be violent themselves”. I’m pretty sure people don’t need that point of view banned from being shown ever in order to make the judgement that violence isn’t really productive (and is very illegal).
It makes me laugh how some ridiculous things get banned and others don’t!!! Someone probably complained and they couldn’t be bothered to sort it so banned it for ease sake!!!
Sorry I’m late…
It’s not the adverts that suggest its honourable to seek revenge and that violence is an acceptable solution, it’s the ASA and BBFC.
I say we go take em on by shooting conviniently placed signs and explodey things (yeah I played the demo, the game sucked but compared to the censors it’s a worthy ally).