Advertising Complaint

I totally agree with you. I just cancelled my account today.

I disagree with the critics who site freedom of speech concerns in
several of the replies to your original post. There is nothing
illegal about these ads or the company that pays for them. There is
also, however, nothing ethical or moral about the ads to warrant
SiriusXM broadcasting.

Good job and I support you. How do we get others to understand why
paid advertisements from AshleyMadison should not be accepted by
SiriusXM?

You subscribe to a service whose biggest draw is Howard Stern and
somehow this comes as a shock to you??

Clearly, you KNEW what the ad was for when it came on, as is evidenced
by the fact that you very specifically stated the company's mission
here. But I wonder what stopped you from changing the channel while
that was on? (and personally, I'd have been far more disturbed had
you had Playboy or Spice on in the car with the kids!)

There is no "assault" on your family or anyone else's for that matter.
We each have the choice and the obligation to shield our families
from the things we don't want them exposed to. It's no one else's job
but ours.

Furthermore, depending on how old your children are, it's likely that
they were completely oblivious to the ad, unless it had some catchy
jingle designed to stick in ones mind. (although I can't seem to find
a any snappy words to rhyme with "sleazy adulterer.")

My 5 year old I swear, tunes out ads - just never notices them. But
that kid can sing every word of his favorite songs. And my 14 year
old? He already knows how ignorant and wrong it is to cheat (as he
had to witness the fall out of his father's and my divorce first
hand!) and to further glamorize it by advertising services that help
people do this. With the divorce rate at 50%, I'd guess that services
like this have been around for a while and thinking your kids won't
ever know what it is might be a bit naive.

But if something comes on that you don't want your kids to see or
hear, turn it off. There is no rule or law saying that they will
never ever (or should never ever) be exposed to anything that could be
damaging to their fragile little psyches.

How do you know the OP clearly KNEW what the ad was for when it came
on? Just because he stated the mission statement after the fact does
not mean he knew at the time.

You also say "We each have the choice and the obligation to shield our
families from the things we don't want them exposed to." I think this
is exactly what the OP is doing. They don't like the these ads being
played on a news channel so expressing their views to Sirus, what's so
wrong about that?

And just because your 4 year old tunes stuff out doesn't mean every
kid does. My 2 year old picks up on some obscure stuff in
commercials.

I'm also pretty sure that the OP is not too naive to think that the
kid will never grow up and know what these things mean. I'm sure your
4 year old doesn't know all the complexities and intimate details of
an adult relationship. Of course they probably will in the future but
now is not the time.

I would have to say the same freedom of speech you enjoy coming from
MSNBC and CNN is also expressed in their commercials.

Honestly what do you expect from sirius? Its not regulated by the FCC
or any governing body, they can swear, and talk about anything they
want. They can also advertise everything they want. And money
talks.

You know this is just going to get people here looking up
ashleymadison just to see what it's about.

According to the wiki the site is "Ashley Madison is an online dating
service and social network service marketed primarily to people who
are already in a relationship.[1] The website was launched in
2001.[2][3]
"

The problem may be that it doesn't specifically say "MARRIED" but in a
relationship. Not all relationships are marriages.



As for the advertising - you might want to consider contacting sirius
to find out who is actually in charge of selling advertising blocks.


if it's anything like regular radio the contracts aren't always with
the "radio shows" but with the networks. In regular radio that is
often a mix of contracts of both local (contracted with the station)
and nation-wide (contracted with the network).


In satellite radio i can understand where you'd assume that say "The
Math Channel" might specifically handle their own contracts but, a
quick look at Sirius suggests that the contracting may also include
contracts with the system itself not just the specific channel.


http://www.siriusxm.com/contactus

So you might want to shoot them an email at their contact page to find
out who really authorized the advertising.


Although I personally scoff at MSNBC and CNN for political reasons...
I would still suggest finding out if it's something they personally
authorized or something they cannot directly control