{"id":4097,"date":"2008-01-17T19:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/sweden-considering-a-ban-on-sexist-advertising\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T02:51:08","slug":"sweden-considering-a-ban-on-sexist-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4097","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Considering A Ban On Sexist Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/9656\/20080115\/\">From The Local<\/a> (a site with Swedish news translated into English):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;special government rapporteur Eva-Maria Svensson suggested the creation of a law &#8220;banning advertising containing sexist content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sexist advertising is defined in the report as any message distributed &#8220;with a commercial aim&#8221; that can be &#8220;construed as offensive to women or men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sexist advertising affects the shaping of people&#8217;s identities and is counter-productive to society&#8217;s goal of achieving gender equality,&#8221; said the report, which calls for a new law to go into effect on January 1st, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The report was submitted to the government on Tuesday for consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what to think about this. Although I believe in strict protection of free speech for political and artistic speech, I think advertising &#8212; with the exception of political ads &#8212; should receive a lower level of protection. But I wonder about how the law of unintended consequences would operate if this proposal becomes law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Local (a site with Swedish news translated into English): &#8230;special government rapporteur Eva-Maria Svensson suggested the creation of a law &#8220;banning advertising containing sexist content.&#8221; Sexist advertising is defined in the report as any message distributed &#8220;with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4097\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,91,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism-sexism-etc","category-free-speech-censorship-copyright-law-etc","category-international-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}