JdeBPI just saw a #Mulvad VPN advertisement on #YouTube that gave me the impression that London, and the U.K. government, were censoring its advertisements.
I did some digging, and this is misinformation. No regulator censored anything. Not the government, nor #Ofcom, nor the #AdvertisingStandardsAuthority, were involved at all.
#Clearcast, a private organization owned by some of the telly channel companies, which works with advertisers pre-broadcast, had some questions and rejected the initial advert copy that was sent over. And the tale as told even by Mulvad itself doesn't have Mulvad even answering them before it went off in a sulk to YouTube crying 'government censorship'.
One of Clearcast's questions, I read, was what rape, murder, and paedophilia had to do with #VPNs such that they ought to be in a telly advertisement. Given #TomScott's long battle with misleading VPN advertising, that seems like a fair question to be asking.
Glyn Moody
Techdirt
Ken Everett (Ken's Blogspot)
wildperal
Niceguy
Richard Ashwell
