Advertisements are everywhere magazines, newspapers, radio, television, and even schools. Billboards hang on walls and stadiums at high schools and colleges nation wide. At my high school the seats had advertisements on the back. Everywhere you look there is something telling you what to believe, wear, or do in any given situation. These fact although sad gets worse the deeper you look into it. Not only do businesses and media companies choose whom or what they allow to be place in adverti

The usual argument against this is that it will allow racist and hate groups to advertise in mainstream ways. However there is a difference between banning socialist, liberal or just anti-beer and cigarette adds on TV and obvious anger motivated and violence orientated movements. There is a difference between spreading the message of alternate viewpoints and viewpoints that have a direct link to anger and violence.

People who pay for the magazines and newspapers, cable connections is it right to these consumers to basically only offer them one choice. To in essence keep them to one idea or viewpoint. Political advertisements are a plain example of this, democratic and republican advertisements are run all day every day, however third party advertisements are hardly ever if ever seen. Is it right for people to basically from a young age to be told what to think, wear, do without full right of all people to spread their ideas if they have the money and will to do so? This is supposed to be the country of the freedom of opinion and speech. Companies and networks tell group after group no because they do not believe in their policies or it interferers with other advertisers points of view, so a choice must be made. Does the right that it offends the current standards of business or society a just reason to stop all political and socially oriented advertisements. Progress is what the United States was designed for to have an ever evolving and self fixing system, how is that possible without all viewpoints being presented.

When advertising space is bought, especially on television

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