Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days agoNothing 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.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Smuggling is moving physical goods from one place to another, not advertising. That is why I think it is important to just call it advertising.
Why are you trying to read some kind of negative intent into my differing opinion that is fundamentally the same as yours, but with a minor difference?