Cancel the Kiwi summer: ice cream doesn’t make you happy
Thursday, 7 November 2019, 8:17 pm
Press Release: Free Speech Coalition
Cancel the Kiwi summer: ice cream doesn’t make you
happy.
7 November 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
The Free Speech Coalition says it is crazy
overreach by the Advertising Standards Authority to
order a take down of an ice
cream sign that includes the apparently irresponsible claim
that “ice cream makes you happy”.
Free
Speech Coalition spokesman Stephen Franks says, “Talk
about creaming it. These clipboard zealots are surely
whipping up work if this is what they need to focus on. The
Advertising Standards Authority is supposed to be about
protecting consumers about misleading claims - not moral
pontification about issues such as ice cream waist lines and
Kiwi summer quenchers.”
“These people’s head will
explode when they read the byline on Red Bull ads. But with
today’s nutty decision, most Kiwis would probably cheer at
that.”
“Rights of free speech should be no less
assured just because it is ‘commercial speech’. It is
reassuring that the Advertising Standards Board is presently
not a government authority. But its moralising is still
adding to threats to traditional
freedoms.”
ENDS
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