Banned: Graphic anti-Halal pamphlet, a gun-toting Winnie the Pooh and sex shop billboard
The ad the ASB deemed this Club Shoop ad “inappropriate.”
A graphic anti-Halal certification group pamphlet depicting a cow with its throat slit lying in a pool of blood is one of several recent ads to fall foul of the Ad Standards Board.
Circulated by anti-Halal group Restore Australia, the flyer showed a cow lying on the ground with a severed throat, accompanied by the text “This Australian cow was fully conscious as its throat was slit”. A member of the public complained to the watchdog, writing that “blood all over the ground… kids don’t need to see this.”
The watchdog ruled against the ad, as it contained imagery that was “likely to cause alarm to the community, especially children.”
So we are all allowed to see the image of the cow that was offensive here, but yet it cannot be part of printed material.
Has anyone complaining about this image heard of the internet? Besides, children do need to see it, as they need to experience many things from which well intentioned but misguided protectors try to keep them. Ever vistied a farm, say?
Yo, Aussies –
T’would be a blessing indeed if those of you living Dewn Undah would insist on a First Amendment to your constitution (and while you’re at it, a Second Amendment as well), like that of the United States.
But hey, if you’re content to put up with this jackboot censorship, that’s your problem.
And a problem it IS.
Yo, teebonicus, the reason we don’t have free speech is because of the tireless campaigning of the AMERICAN media company News Corp.