Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoThe things being smuggled are ideas. “beyond the reach of regulators,” see? It’s the advertisement nature of what’s being done here.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nothing is being ‘smuggled’.
They are just advertising. Regular old advertising which should have the same rules applied as any other advertising.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
They’re advertising tobacco to children, which is illegal. Why would you throw yourself on this hill?
If they are circumventing regulators, and they are doing that, then they are smuggling advertisements to illegal targets, yes.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What hill do you think I’m on?
My point was that they were advertising and it should be treated as advertising, including any legal pushments for advertising to children. Advertising doesn’t involve ‘smuggling’ or other words that make zero sense in this context.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
The article specifically calls out advertising—how does ‘smuggling’ imply anything else? To smuggle here just means “to circumvent regulators.” And yeah, I think it’s appropriately terse.
You are reacting to what is, at worst, a bit of poetry. I don’t understand why you’re doing that.