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06.05.26 - 11:33
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Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative: Amsterdam Bans Ads Featuring Meat & Fossil Fuels (ZeroHedge)
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Carbon Neutral, Speech Negative: Amsterdam Bans Ads Featuring Meat & Fossil Fuels
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
In “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” I write about how censorship often becomes an insatiable appetite once countries go down the road of speech regulation. There is no better example than the Dutch and their recent ban on public ads for meat and fossil fuels. Activists have imposed similar limitations on advertising for products in the United States, from alcohol to tobacco. However, the Dutch law reflects how this tendency can metastasize into shielding citizens from unhealthy choices or influences.
It appears that Dutch painters such as Pieter Aertsen (with his work A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms, above) were promoting harmful imagery in their work. As for Rembrandt's “Slaughtered Ox,” the Dutch master is now little more than a climate change denier.
Starting on May 1, the ban on such images became part of Amsterdam's push to ach...
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