It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler

[Ardesco]

An advert showing a close-up picture of Tony Blair with a barcode on his top lip was not offensive, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.

The advert appeared in The Guardian newspaper with the strapline: "ID cards have worked well in Europe before." Eight people complained that they thought the barcode made Blair resemble Hitler.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11...ir_not_hitler/

Freedom for speech etc !!!

[ratewhore]

I particularly like this bit:

They said the ad was intended to be insulting to Tony Blair but argued that insulting a politician was unlikely to offend.

About right...

[Nicky G]

It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler

Yes. Well we pretty much live in a totalitarian society where the populace is coerced to support New Labour and where those intolerant of liberal ideals are branded as outcasts.

[wendigo100]

It's rather good, actually.

[threaded]

What is saddest is the complainers thought they'd get anywhere by making a complaint, and then all the public money wasted on generating a ruling. Couldn't they hire a temp to hit a "return to sender and tell them not to be such a pillock" button?

[Board Game Geek]

Well, if Hitler was alive (and Blakey from On The Buses is a strong candidate), he'd be suing for defamation of character.

I mean, imagine, who would want to look like TB, for crikey's sake ?

[DaveB]

It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler

Yes. Next!