Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Ard_van_der_Steur_2015_(2)
Ard van der Steur (Photo: Rijksoverheid.nl/Wikimedia Commons) - Credit: Ard van der Steur (Photo: Rijksoverheid.nl/Wikimedia Commons)
Politics
adultery
adultery ads
Ard van der Steur
divorce
Kees van der Staaij
lower house of parliament
SGP
Tweede Kamer
Thursday, 28 January 2016 - 09:42
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

No plan to ban adultery website ads, says Justice Min.

Security and Justice Minister Ard van der Steur is very much against Christian party SGP's call to ban advertisements that promote adultery by sites like Second Love from the public broadcasters in the Netherlands. According to him, monitoring and supervising ads is the Netherlands Advertising Code Committee's job, and not the government's. "We would cross a border if we as government express a moral judgement on such a website, which moves within the framework of the law", the Minister said on Wednesday in a parliamentary meeting about angry-divorce, according to Dutch newspaper Reformatorisch Dagblad. Earlier on Wednesday SGP leader Kees van der Staaij called for adultery ads to be banned, at least from public broadcasters. According to him, many divorces are caused by adultery and are very harmful to the children involved. Van der Staaij called Van der Steur's reaction "disappointing".

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • One person found dead after major fire in business premises in Schellinkhout
  • Ajax pick up their first win since October in Heitinga’s debut
  • Philips restructuring: Massive layoffs and recall of sleep apnea devices
  • Police officer injured after being dragged more than 300 meters by car
  • Extinction Rebellion protest: 768 arrests made and 725 activists released
  • League leaders Feyenoord drop points away to FC Twente

Top stories

  • Dutch royal family under fire for “caricature insensitivity”
  • Prime Minister Mark Rutte will speak at Holocaust commemoration
  • A12 open again after Extinction Rebellion protest, more than 500 people arrested
  • Police intervenes Extinction Rebellion protest on A12; Dozens of people arrested
  • Rutte lashes out at left wing parties in election campaign interview
  • Netherlands and the US agree on export restriction of ASML chip machines

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content