Should this be cencored

The Dread Pirate · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:53

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7216926.stm

Does this seem wrong to you? I personally think it's a good advert. :confused:

andyp · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:55

Capn' $qu!ff said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7216926.stm

Does this seem wrong to you? I personally think it's a good advert.

It's pretty tame.

Fuss being made out of nothing really.

Nitefly · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:55

I think its madness when 13 complaints makes something 'widely offensive'.

HEADRAT · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:57

Sex sells but I do feel the "sexualization of children" is a problem in our society, children already feel a huge pressure to be "grown up", FFS let children have their childhood!

The Dread Pirate · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:58

Nitefly said:
I think its madness when 13 complaints makes something 'widely offensive'.

Now you see they're doing what the FCC do their taking 1 complaint as 1,000,000 peoples view so generally translated "we've had 13 complaints so 13,000,000 people are offended by this"

furnace · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:59

I know it's a model in reality, but you look at the photo, and you see a tarted up school girl in a class room with "HOTTEST" written above her...

Not really the kind of advertising I'd like to catch on. Adult posters / magazines / websites, it's fine and in context, but I don't agree with using this kind of thing to sell stuff to the general public.

Rich_L · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:01

Next thing on the menu:

'School disco' events banned for being offensive

Get down to one ASAP before they get banned

Psymonkee · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:01

Seems to be getting the required publicity though

HEADRAT · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:02

Rich_L said:
'School disco' events banned for being offensive

Not really in the same context though is it

HEADRAT

Energize · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:05

Excellent, I hate tv adverts and I hope this has cost Ryanair hundreds of thousands in advertising money.

platypus · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:05

Any link to the actual advert?

uber soldat · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:08

Nitefly said:
I think its madness when 13 complaints makes something 'widely offensive'.

Yeah i thought that to, another case of a stupid regulatory body deciding what is "offensive" instead of actual normal people

psyr33n · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:09

It's not exactly tasteful and orthodox advertising, but the point is that it's tame in this day and age and taking 13 out of 3,500,000 as a majority is ridiculous. It's petty red tape, kudos to Ryanair for not backing down.

krooton · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:10

Ridiculous

I saw a 6 metre high poster for the next season of Skins on the way to work this morning, with Michelle sitting on a bed in her underwear.... how long til that gets banned?

Muffin` · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:12

Nitefly said:
I think its madness when 13 complaints makes something 'widely offensive'.

That was my initial thought, and still is.

Energize said:
Excellent, I hate tv adverts and I hope this has cost Ryanair hundreds of thousands in advertising money.

Morba · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:12

Energize said:
Excellent, I hate tv adverts and I hope this has cost Ryanair hundreds of thousands in advertising money.

And the publicity they get will be great for them. Well worth the money :]

geeza · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:15

No. I think similar ad's should be used in school clothing shops. They would sell much more stuff to teenage boys definately and girls would think school clothing is more cool.

I used to hate getting uniform with my mum, it was so boring.

Muffin` · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:21

geeza said:
No. I think similar ad's should be used in school clothing shops. They would sell much more stuff to teenage boys definately and girls would think school clothing is more cool.

Yeah girls with Tents were rubbish.

Abraham · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:21

HEADRAT said:
Not really in the same context though is it

HEADRAT

the event may not be, but the adverts are near enough exactly the same
dont really see how it's any different

Energize · 30 Jan 2008 at 14:22

Morba said:
And the publicity they get will be great for them. Well worth the money :]

Publicity doesn't get you money sales do. Having someone report on a ryanair advert being censored isn't going to make thousands of people think, "wow someone complained about their advert, lets book a holiday to Japan for no reason at all and fly with ryanair first class when we prefer british airways anyway".