"This government is taking action now to end the targeting of junk food ads at kids, across both TV and online.",
it's a quote from the article, it's very likely they'd ban ads targeted at children.
it's a quote from the article, it's very likely they'd ban ads targeted at children.
Kids entertainment has almost always been ads.
Disney movies are marketing for toys. Same with TV shows and cartoons.
We have no idea how/where it'd end up (with). If I understand anything about regulations (which is doubtful of course), the advertisers, themselves, would be on the hook.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6168681?hl=en#zipp...
I don't think US administration would be able to do anything, much like GDPR.
> I don't think US administration would be able to do anything, much like GDPR.
We live in a different world to the mid-late 2010s. For better or worse, I'm fairly confident Musk and Zuckerberg will have input on US trade policy on these issues.
In a similar vein gambling content targeted at kids would have a similar approach. Keep in mind the businesses still need to be able to sell in the UK.
Input, yes.
May even be able to get the US to threaten a trade war or to leave NATO if they can't rake in the advertising dollars.
But I think the former would be seen as Trump being Trump and the latter as a bluff, and in both cases it would be reason to more permanently disentangle the UK economy from the US economy and defence relationship than to dry away the crocodile tears of multibillonaires.
They could throw hand grenades into British politics by declassifying embarrassing events involving British soldiers in Iraq, investigating tax issues with labour party donors (many of whom conduct business in the US) or recognising Northern Ireland as part of the Republic of Ireland.
Attacking the British economy would be a political mistake, because a well advised politician would use it as a scapegoat for any economic problem in the UK. Similar with defence - e.g the withdrawal of intelligence cooperation could allow a terrorist attack to be blamed on Trump rather than MI5/MI6 funding stress.
The UK did just go through having Boris Johnson as Prime Minister, after all, who spent his time in office demonstrating that being completely shameless is a viable solution to almost all blackmail — he only fell when there were photos of him partying in the same period he was on TV telling people they couldn't do that or visit dying relatives because COVID lockdown, everything else wrong was basically ignored.