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ARTICLE · 16 FEBRUARY 2022

18+ Markings For Products With Rainbow Themes

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Advertisement Board, with its highly controversial decision on November 2020; deemed the promotions and the sales of products such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, phone cases...

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Advertisement Board, with its highly controversial decision on November 2020; deemed the promotions and the sales of products such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs, phone cases, beach towels offered for sale on various e-commerce sites with expressions "normal", "LGBT", "LGBT Power", "Equality, Bisexual, Freedom, Lesbian, Gay, Love is Love, Homosexual", LGBT Relationship", "Love is Love", "Pride", "Peace", "Love is Love", and rainbow themes without +18 markings against the Constitution and the Advertising Regulation. The advertisements without this warning at the date of referred examination were ordered to be ceased.

The Advertisement Board adopted a new principle of marking the promotions and sales of such products with +18 warnings on websites while not prohibiting the sales of such products.

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