Big Brother is Alive and Well in the UK

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
In his dystopian book "1984," Orwell created Big Brother, who is secretly watching all citizens of Oceania as Thought Police persecute individualism and independent thinking. Censorship reigns, freedom of speech is squelched, and you don't even want to know what goes on in Room 101.

Orwell's vision is alive in well in the U.K. This past week, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) — which sounds an awful lot like the Ministry of Truth — banned three advertisements because it deemed the model to skinny.

The main ad featured a model posing in various outfits including swimwear, a dress and a tank top with a skirt, the ASA said. The model was also shown playing tennis and golf. The ASA said "22 complainants who believed the model looked unhealthily thin challenged whether the ads were socially irresponsible."


https://www.dailywire.com/news/37032/nasty-gals-tv-ads-banned-after-134-lb-bikini-model-joseph-curl
 

Pete

Repete
Not big on censorship but I have spend a great deal of time in the UK the last 2 years and I must say you rarely see overweight people there or grotesquely thin ones either. Might be much ado about nothing
 
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