> Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf.

But without the law, they are doing the moral decision of allowing the hurtful ads. There's no neutral state. The government has to pick a side anyway. So let's pick the side favorable to the citizens?

> individual freedom is more important than majority opinion

Isn't this a contradiction? If the majority wants something, you are hurting the individual freedom of the greatest number of people.

Don't forget that this emboldens the government to define what is and isn't healthy. Something that's worked out super well in the US.

What's the point of laws if not forcing morality?

Shame I had to scroll this far to get to this comment. I have absolutely no idea why, in 2024, people still think we should let the government decide what is good/what we can see/what others can say.

> I still disagree because individual freedom is more important than majority opinion.

this read suspiciously like a stereotypical US opinion regarding individual rights vs rights of the majority.

so i went and looked through your comment history and i now i suspect even more strongly that you are US based.

> Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf.

it’s not your government doing this. you can relax.

also, we in the UK value the balance between individual rights and collective societal rights more strongly than you do. it’s our thing. if you don’t like it, it doesnt matter, you don’t live here.