Political ads could be heading to UK TV screens due to legal loophole

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr/14/political-ads-could-heading-uk-tv-screens-legal-loophole-itv

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18 comments

  1. THE REAL PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

    YOU DON’T HAVE TO WATCH THEM.

  2. If they are adverts don’t they have to meet the advertising standards?
    I e. Be honest..

  3. Fortunately ITV are so stupid that their ads can be blocked with a simple DNS filter

  4. If they do this due to a legal loophole then then have no grounds to bad mouth others that use legal loopholes.

    Luckily I don’t bother with TV to fuck them.

  5. The Tories are really getting desperate hopefully seeing big Pishies face every set of adverts turns some of their core voters off them

  6. good thing i stopped watching mainstream tv ages ago. I watch stuff online wiv adblocker, i feel so free! Though i do miss those old childhood ads from the 80s/90s and 00s, some were awesome!

  7. Good thing I don’t pay my tv license and watch this broadcasted bullshit.

  8. The ‘legal loophole’ being that they have a majority as so can do whatever they want, even if it was never in a manifesto, or against the public’s best interest. What a terrible fag end parliament we find ourselves in. 5 years, especially on a lameduck administration is too long a time to be not going to the people.

  9. Yo dudes. The Conservative Party is pretty chill. You should, like, join it or something.

  10. Good thing I don’t watch live TV or TV with adverts

  11. Good.

    This is going to be hilarious.

    British don’t do advertising well, especially in politics. This is going to give us legend-tier memes.

  12. Who actually watches terrestrial TV in the UK? It’s 99% garbage.

  14. That’s OK, I don’t have a licence to watch TV and I have software to stop ads online.

  15. ITT: oMg WhO aCtUaLlY WaTcHeS tV aNyWaY

    Umm. Most people over 40, and everyone over 50?

    Just because this doesn’t impact you personally doesn’t mean it’s not still a bad thing that will have negative repercussions for us all

  16. Has anyone even skimmed the article?

    It’s a bit of a non-story. One of the smaller streaming services that funds itself through ads is considering allowing political advertising because it isn’t yet explicitly banned in the way it is on live broadcast tv. Grauniad taking a lot of words to lay it out.

  17. I hope Labour pass a law that says any website or streaming service that runs political adverts becomes fully OFCOM regulated. Doubt they’ve got the guts sadly.

  18. The goverment using legal loopholes to get what they want?

    Well colour me expected

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