<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Advertising Standards Authority in U.K. banned a Renewable Fuels Association ad]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by stevenearlsalmony http://www.grist.org/article/Truth-in-advertising1/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:04:02 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Truth-in-advertising1/1 The most dangerous game in town.....

......Destroying the value of truth to the human community by consciously substituting whatsoever could somehow be true with silence. Such perpetration of willful silence is tantamount to a pernicious lie.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1 ...


]]> The most dangerous game in town.....

......Destroying the value of truth to the human community by consciously substituting whatsoever could somehow be true with silence. Such perpetration of willful silence is tantamount to a pernicious lie.

Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
established 2001
http://sustainabilityscience.org/content.html?contentid=1 ...


]]> Comment #2 by Tasermons Partner http://www.grist.org/article/Truth-in-advertising1/ Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:54:51 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/Truth-in-advertising1/2 It varies...

I'm not aware of an American equivalent of the ASA, but we sure could use one.

That generally falls under the FCC, 'specially for television and radio.

Sometimes state and local courts will also take up the issue as well, and rule (or try to) against what they believe to be fraudlant advertising (since advertising laws can vary by region).

Lawsuits also pick up the slack sometimes.

]]> It varies...

I'm not aware of an American equivalent of the ASA, but we sure could use one.

That generally falls under the FCC, 'specially for television and radio.

Sometimes state and local courts will also take up the issue as well, and rule (or try to) against what they believe to be fraudlant advertising (since advertising laws can vary by region).

Lawsuits also pick up the slack sometimes.

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