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This type of thinking is very dangerous. As long as we ask the government to legislate our problems away we will continue to give our freedoms away. This is a very serious problem and a sign of an even bigger one. In a free market WE HAVE THE CONTROL. If we don't like the unfair advertising practices we can not buy the product, not watch the TV station, not buy the magazine and make sure we get others to do the same. As long as we BELIEVE this does no good and we don't have any power we won't have any. Once we start asking the government to regulate markets for our own good we have opened a dangerous and scary door. Next thing you know nightclubs are bad for you so we will shut them down, or driving is too dangerous so we will make everyone ride public transit. Living in a free society means there will be some things we need to take care of ourselves. I think we need to find a way to deal with this advertising and the image they are putting in our minds, but it should not be through legislation; once the government is involved you have a real mess. If these companies are spending millions on advertising what makes you think they won't spend millions on elected officials to get their commercials approved. Then you have people thinking they are protected and they are not. Any type of media can be resisted if need be. If people stop watching stations that run questionable advertising it will change. If we learn to use our power of the free market we as consumers will have an enormous amount of control. With the internet growing as fast as it is I would think this type of control is more realistic that ever. The biggest crime against our society is the fact we have been convinced we have no influence in a free market, people have bought that line and we are suffering because of it. JMO
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