Batgirl wrote:
This is the modern world. Many people don't care what is illegal and what is not. They want to tell people that their product is the best and in selfish company owners, that'll spark them to do anything they have to, to get attention. But it's not fair to say that only photoshopping is used to deceive people. They'll flat out lie using any means possible.
Actually, many people do care what is illegal and what is not. I don't know about you, but in the UK we have the Advertising Standards Agency, which keeps a fairly tight lid on adverts that, instead of promoting the positive and genuine aspects of their product, will willfully deceive people to believe in attributes that aren't there. So it's really not so hard to rein them in.
As it happens, I don't think the ASA covers photoshopping, but if that photoshopping is deceptive, I don't see why it shouldn't.
Batgirl wrote:
I'll stick to saying that I think photoshopping in media is perfectly fine, as long as they're not explicitly telling people that you -must- look like that.
So it's okay for the media to deceive people, but not okay for them to give an opinion? I don't geddit.
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