{"id":663,"date":"2008-04-22T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/22\/perplexing-censorship\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T04:38:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T09:38:01","slug":"perplexing-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/22\/perplexing-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexing Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve posted about Tom Ford<\/a>‘s most recent provocative campaign (see here<\/a>), but Urban Artiste drew our attention to an interesting development. The Italian Advertising Institute has banned one of his ads for being too “vulgar,” “sexually implicit,” “beyond bad taste,” and an “offensive gesture which insults women and the dignity of all” (quotes found at The Daily Telegraph<\/a>). Which ad?<\/p>\n

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Not this one (found here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Nope, not this one either (found here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Nope, not even this one (found here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Or this one (found here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Nope, they banned this one (found here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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To be fair, I can’t find out much information on this. I don’t even know for sure if the other ads circulated in Italy (though I don’t know of any reason why they wouldn’t be). I’d love your speculations as to why the last would be singled out for censorship, as well as any additional information you hear about the ban.<\/p>\n

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We’ve posted about Tom Ford‘s most recent provocative campaign (see here), but Urban Artiste drew our attention to an interesting development. The Italian Advertising Institute has banned one of his ads for being too “vulgar,” “sexually implicit,” “beyond bad taste,” and an “offensive gesture which insults women and the dignity of all” (quotes found at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,225,23703,1819,304,280,120],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-clothesfashion","tag-marketing","tag-nation-italy","tag-the-state","tag-perfumecologne","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}