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yichusdik
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ZD is correct. For better and worse, the freedoms being exercised by advertisers in your neighborhood are part of what makes your neighborhood and your country a safe appealing and free place for you and your community to live.

If you feel you must do something about these images, you can: a)approach the owner or the marketing firm that sells advertising space on the shelters and ask them to put your sensitivities over their bottom line (they might actually say yes. Goodwill also has value). b) do some work for yourself and your community by finding an advertiser or advertisers who would benefit from the exposure and ask THEM to advertise on bus shelters in your neighborhood. c) engage in civil discourse about this at the political level, to see if your local assemblyman or council member is prepared to seek a change to the law to restrict what kind of images are legal. Not much likelihood of success with this one, but you don’t know if you just complain. And your elected officials, like everyone else’s are interested in being reelected. So work to deliver them votes if they do what you wish. Or, conversely, work against them if they don’t. But DO SOMETHING. It is your neighborhood.

If you actually get involved in finding a solution that accomplishes your goal but that doesn’t violate the rights of others, You could be teaching our Tayere Yidishe kids about democracy, engagement, civic responsibility, and good citizenship. Assuming they are going to vote and pay taxes when they are older, that’s a useful agenda.