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Parents.of teenagers, the BeReal app is advertising cigarettes to your children. My 17 year old son, at breakfast this morning, showed me an ad for Newport cigarettes for $11.05 per pack. Please monitor your children's online activities!

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[-] aramis87@fedia.io 31 points 10 hours ago

While this may be true, and monitoring your kids' internet exposure is generally good, can we please not turn the fediverse into Facebook? I hate this kind of alarmist shit.

[-] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 11 hours ago

Aint this is a crime in the US?

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

TMK it's not a crime only advertising to children, but it definitely should be.

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Its supposed to be but idk how it's regulated over the internet.

[-] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

The same way it is in the physical world. It's illegal.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 10 hours ago

Well, internet is not spme ether. Websites are owned by legal entities registered within certian jurisdictions to do business.

Presumably bereal is regiatered within US and subject to US law thay it is currently violating.

A report within app is a start, them report it to attorney general office in your state with proper evidence...

Screenshots and proper outline of facts so an state attorney can work with it.

Granted US is corpo dystopia but if peoppe did this more maybe it would be less so.

[-] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Is this that "capture what you're doing" app?

I don't believe people would use that for nefarious means. No way!

[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 15 points 12 hours ago

"Hey kid, want some happysticks?"

[-] teft@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

You don’t want to sell me happy sticks. You want to go home and rethink your life.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago

never heard about this app, but where do you have to live to get cigarette ads at all? I'm pretty sure we made that illegal in canada and I never saw any while travelling either.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

You let your kids watch ads?

Let them use freedom respecting software. Don't give your kids crack.

[-] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

I stopped using BeReal a few months ago after they kept adding unwanted features (the entire point of this app was its simplicity) and my friends were leaving the app. Sad to see it has these kind of ads now.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 11 hours ago

Nearly all social media apps teenagers use accept such ads, BeReal is just cheaper because it has less users.

this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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