Posted: Jun 01, 2011 3:07 am
j.mills wrote:Note that the "Advertising Standards Bureau chief executive Fiona Jolly said the organisation had no part in the removal of the advertisements", and "Brisbane City Council, which owns the bus stop panels, declined to comment on the removal of the advertisements, saying “the council had no involvement in this matter”." So the removal is entirely the decision of the advertising company, Adshel, who say: “Adshel does not take a position regarding the views or position of various community groups.” Yet by removing the ad they are doing exactly that.
What are they afraid of, that homophobes are going to boycott bus shelters?
From what I understand, Adshel will now be fielding several hundred complaints about the removal of the ads. So we'll see if their actions are being directed by public opinion or by political/religious pressures.
And from the ACL:
MR: People power wins in removing offending ads
Posted by Katherine Spackman, PR Officer on May 31st, 2011
MEDIA RELEASE
For release: May 31, 2011
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) says a grass-roots campaign has been successful in removing sexualised advertising at Brisbane bus shelters.
ACL’s Queensland State Director Wendy Francis has applauded the decision of Adshel, the provider of advertising at bus shelters, to remove condom advertisement targeting homosexual men.
The ads were part of a marketing campaign agency Queensland Association for Healthy Communities (QAHC), which receives state government funding.
“The ad featured two men in an act of foreplay with a large condom pictured in the left hand corner and the slogan ‘RIP&ROLL’ as well as the wording ‘A safe sex message from healthy communities’,” Mrs Francis said.
Ms Francis said it went against prevailing community standards to introduce sexuality to young children through forced exposure in public.
“A massive groundswell of people power has won the day when it comes to the bus shelters which have been pulled down over night,” she said.
However, Mrs Francis called for GOA Billboards to remove the same offending ads on billboards which remained on busy roads, such as a billboard on an intersection on Sandgate road.
A billboard on Sandgate Road
“Complaints have been lodged to the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) and General Outdoor Advertising (GOA) billboards,” she said.
“We are disappointed with the response of GOA billboards in not removing the billboards. The company said it won’t remove the advertising unless directed by ASB.”
http://australianchristianlobby.org.au/ ... nding-ads/
Good on GOA Billboards for not bowing to these cronies. It's religionists like these who will deny sexual health education to our youth and simultaneously demonise homosexuals as spreaders of HIV.
And Adshel, if I recall correctly, were the organisation that wouldn't run the atheist bus ads in Sydney.
(I'll hunt for a source later.)