Why Curbs on Advertising Harm Free Speech

In this episode, IEA Acting Academic and Research Director Syed Kamall discusses new IEA research by Professor Len Shackleton, Editorial and Research Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs.  In his new paper, Ad Break: Why Curbs on Advertising Harm Free Speech, Len looks at how restrictions on advertisements by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) constitute a threat to freedom of speech and can restrict competition in the market. He argues that now is the time to afford commercial speech the same rights and protection as intellectual free speech and urges the ASA to scale back its interreference in advertising.   FOLLOW US: TWITTER - https://twitter.com/iealondon INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/ieauk/ FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/ieauk WEBSITE - https://iea.org.uk/