ISP Blocks Body Parts to Promote Parental Controls

An Adrants reader points to today’s edition of Metro newspaper in Toronto carries a four page cover wrap ad for ISP Bell promoting their Bell Sympatico online service which includes parental and viral controls. On one panel, using an image of a school text book showing a woman’s body with breasts and pelvic region blurred, the headline reads, “You’ll do anything to protect your kids from inappropriate content.”

Apparently, we are to believe that sex education is a bad thing and kids should be protected from it. That’s twisted logic. Now if Bell had used an image of, say, Jenna Jameson with appropriate body parts blurred, the message would make far more sense. This ad basically says Bell will shield your kids from beneficially educational content which wreaks of over protectionism.

View a larger version of the ad here.

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