French Parliament opposes proposal to ban advertising screens in public spaces

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  1. * French parliament members Delphine Bathot and Lisa Belluco (Green Party) have [introduced a proposal](https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/textes/l16b0888_proposition-loi#) to ban all advertising screens in public spaces.

    * Parliament members from Renaissance (Macron’s Party), Les Républicains (right-wing) and the Rassemblement National (Far-Right) have voted together to block this proposal.

    * *« They tell the french to make an effort to waste less energy, and everywhere in the streets, we see these advertising screens. They encourage us to consume more and more”»* says Thomas Bourgenot of the NGO Résistance à l’agression publicitaire.

    * A recent [scientific study](https://en.arcep.fr/uploads/tx_gspublication/press-kit-study-Ademe-Arcep-lot3_march2023.pdf) published by a French Government Agency found concluded that to our reach to our carbon footprint goals, all advertising screens should be banned.

    * However, parliament members from Renaissance, Les Republicains, and the Rassemblement National have voted together to stop this bill.

    * Representative Stéphane Buchou, from Macron’s Renaissance Party, says the proposal is way too extreme. From 2009 to 2017, Stephane Buchou was vice-president of Cocktail Vision, a company that manufactures and deploys advertising screens

    * Clément Beaune, Minister for Transport, has promised to take strong measures.
    He announced corporations have [signed a document](https://twitter.com/CBeaune/status/1640271479391633409) where they promised that every night, they will voluntarly shut down their screens in metro stations and railway stations.

  2. Paywall and media p🤢rt.

    It’s shite. It’s borderline propaganda but people vow a ridiculous cult to it. People of the left of course. Imagine if on the right, people were claiming stupid stuff like Figaro is “the last good investigation paper left in France”. How ridiculous.

    Even this article can be easily mocked for anyone with a minimum of critical thinking. Not exactly the forte of reddit.

    Les députés Renaissance, Les Républicains et RN ont repris les argumentaires du lobby du secteur pour torpiller en commission un texte interdisant les écrans publicitaires

    Oh no, they used the evil argumentation of the EVIL LOBBY. Evil people of the center/right. Like if you’re not complete dumb, you laugh at this. Too bad, they don’t say what this argument are. That’s would be too much to ask. INFORM people? No way. Just repeat like a bot what the journalist said.

  3. >Renaissance (Macron’s Party), Les Républicains (right-wing) and the Rassemblement National (Far-Right)

    The same three that always have the people and the environment’s best interests at heart. No surprise here.

  4. This doesn’t make any sense, they should be regulated in brightness, specifically at night and whenever they can disturb driving and housing.

    Maybe even have them only displaying the same brightness that would be reflected if printed on paper, but outright banning doesn’t seem smart.

    The French left seems to be fully invested in destroying any still functioning part of the economy they have.

  5. This is a global atrocity that needs to stop. It’s blatant out of control waste of our planet that is unnecessary. There’s just no need for it.

  6. The corruption and conflicts of interest are very strong in the right wing of the French Parliament.

    So nothing surprising here. Just a little more disappointment and less confidence.

  7. If the products were actually good, word of mouth would promote them. Advertising is anti competition and only aids large corporations that have big budgets for campaigns. It’s net negative for society, banning screens in public spaces is the least that can be done. Extremely simple to enforce and would immediately mean one problem less.

    Amazing they won’t do this, there can be no other explanation but corruption.

  8. Y’know, I can’t see this going down too well with the current protestors. I don’t know, but the only way I see this ending is Macron leaving office, either through resignation or an election.

  9. Why do they even have a say? Hasn’t French court decided that Macron/president can impose laws without parliament voting? We have in France established a presedent for the imposition of laws, once a government can so that, you have lost your freedom.

    As an aside parliament is expensive, since it is now no longer necessary why we paying these people? Seems like a waste since they no longer have a real role to play.

  10. Pots and pans are forbidden in the streets, because citizens protest using them. But annoying ads taking over cities is perfectly valid because only big corporations can afford them.

    That says a lot about a government.

  11. Green Party: lobbying against low carbon and breaking the nuclear sector in France for decades, travels to Germany to celebrate more coal.

    Also the Green Party: we need to ban advertising to save you from climate change.

    Idiots.

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