Topic: Ads for online gambling should be banned. (Read 1293 times)

You should prepare yourself because most likely that is coming, social media websites already censor a great deal of content to keep their sites clean of opinions they do not like, however as much as those websites are popular among the population, they are not the whole internet, there are forums and blogs in which people are still able to express themselves freely, with this forum being a clear example of this, and governments will try to regulate the whole internet with similar laws all over the world.

This is wrong understanding. When the production and importing of cigars were stopped, automatically smoking can be stopped throughout the country. Maybe there'll be illegal production units and those too can be found if the cops and the investigation networks work on it. Same as that ban of gambling ads can be done. Governments openly state about the ban, but they provide known loopholes to keep things functioning which is the wrong governance.

Actually ban of smoking is not the easy one,Many people was consume the smoking in their home.Did the government had not keep the smoking sensor in the entire country,So we can’t say it’s possible to ban of smoking.Now they start to touch the gambling by just ban of the usage of credit cards to the gambling site.It was in the news,they are not ban the gambling.They just ban the credit card usage to the gambling.Because the credit card will help the user to play the game unlimited and at the end may leads to more credits to their citizen.

Such a ban can only affect the casinos that are operating within that particular region where the ban is being imposed because they would probably be getting most of the traffic from that country or region and if they are not allowed to advertise, that will mean less gamblers and eventually less revenue. In such a case, a casino will probably need to change its jurisdiction and move to a different place if they don't want its business to just get ruined by this.

If the ban is imposed in Australia, and there are casinos that has Australia as their basic jurisdiction because they have their license from there and most of the players are from that region, they will have a hard time since the hub for their promotions will be closed and they will need to find another source.

Few people can access casinos then. It is time these casinos also will find ways to start having a version of their site for each country like Stake.ca Yep Stake has it ready I guess they are seeing it happening already.  It must be a premium domain to buy. 

Australia was the first and then Canada. It's somewhat easier to track gamblers and crypto users if each country will be doing it this way. Stake seems to be ready to comply.

I’m sure they would just follow Canada’s lead and start censoring websites from their citizens. It’s pretty crazy that this is happening to be honest but at least people still have the option to use VPNs for now. I’m sure someday in the not too distant future these countries will start making VPN use illegal.

Australian laws should have no effect on a global forum. I don't see how they can enforce this in their country without resorting to widespread censorship of the internet. Gambling ads are everywhere. Maybe they will just ban gambling entirely, that way even if a user clicks on an ad or visits a casino site after watching a video ad the domain will be blocked by their ISP.

I agree that individual responsibility is important, but its important to grasp the details. Gambling, even among adults, is not voluntary. Dopamine, a reward neurotransmitter, is released by gambling. Over time, an imbalance might cause addictive behaviours, making people sensitive to ads.

The internet is a 'unregulated space of freedom' to some extent. Platforms moderate content, though. Thus, the theory seems plausible.

Society setting ethical standards is the issue, not "big brother" surveillance. Comparing to China is striking. Still, public health and ethical obligations over individual freedoms that could harm society are the main focus.

Parents' approach to their children must be gradual and should not be seen as a strict rule for their children because they will rebel. Parents need to understand their children's thoughts by inviting them to discuss many things. Then, parents can provide useful suggestions or input for their children. And regarding the advertisements on their smartphones, if parents can understand their children, there will be no curiosity because their children will think about the dangers of gambling if they get involved. Parents must be able to think creatively and outside the box if they want to provide understanding to their children because nowadays, teenagers are much more developed than they were a few years ago. They are smarter in many things, so if parents are less creative, parents may find it difficult to handle their children.

Australia has become the world's biggest woke-shithole lately. First they banned smoking and now they are banning gambling ads. What next, banning gambling completely? How about banning alcohol too while you are at it? What about weed? Oh right, weed will get a pass because most woketurds smoke it I guess. No guns too. If you are living in this old brit prison, you are at the mercy of this stupidly woke government. Leave this shithole while you still can. It is not going to get better before it gets worse there.

Depending on the country, it could already very well be banned. But when it comes to addictive substances or in this case, addictive behaviors, as long as they are adults, I see no problem in advertising to them. As far as children go, the internet is a completely unregulated room of full freedom, so they will find worse things on the internet than gambling advertisements. There is no way to stop them except if the parents themselves implement a very strict control over the child. Which, in itself could be debated on whether or not that is a good way for a child to grow and learn.

But lets assume that everyone here is an adult. Why should we demand censorship? Are we not responsible for ourselves? Do we not have the freedom to do as we like? Do we need big brother to watch over us, and tell us what we are allowed and what we are not, as if we were living in China?

Yes, it is very possible, and indeed I think environmental factors can also greatly influence anyone to enter gambling, not just some advertisements from the internet.  True, I agree with you that advertisements on several social media are now more and more numerous and difficult to control, especially for us as a society that does not have any authority to eradicate the promotion of gambling, for that problem we just leave it to the government, and here all we can do is minimize or reduce all possibilities that can adversely affect us, especially our children.

As we know the development of social media is now very fast and so are the gambling promotions that we find more and more, so with that I will agree with your suggestion, we must be able to minimize whatever we don't want, I think a good way is better to limit cellphone access for our children and also limit them in their social environment, don't let your guard down at all, gambling is very dangerous for the future, especially children.

There is always movements against gambling and gambling ads in every countries, usually supported by leftist parties or parties which raise a religious flag. The point is that these movements are really weak, depending the country, so we don't hear about them, besides the fact they don't have support from a considerable portion of the population or the national media. When this is the case, gambling is safe to continue existing and being promoted, what attracts a large interest from international businessmen interested in exploring this niche of the market.

Yes, more on alcohol and cigarettes as well here in my country. Nevertheless, there are also ads about gambling as well, with even faces of well known athletes are part of the ads and promotion.

So I guess our country is not to hard core about gambling per se, although sometimes there are police raids about certain area wherein they are doing illegal gambling, but it's rare and we even have like 3 big casinos operated by big casino companies. Yes, there are news about Australia lately about their casino rules and regulations, but then again, it's going to be a uphill battle for the government to totally stop gambling, in my opinion.

The Australian government is concerned about her underage citizens, who venture into gambling. I've read, years ago, about an Australian kid who committed suicide because he wasn't able to pay up loans he took for gambling purpose; he got addicted. Similar to other citizens, both adults, commit suicide after taking multiple loans. So, the government, from the article OP shared, can enforce the no gambling ads on stadiums during football matches. It could help, but no accurate measures can solve such problem. The high rate of gambling ads outside the internet is too high, gambling houses exist almost in every street, according to locations. Hence, parental control for kids with phones, reduces or won't help. Restricting kids through parental control, is like stopping the flow of water with a mud. Adolescents are seen hovering the streets like a helicopter and they're exposed to these gambling houses, they see it in real life, not online. They see close relatives, who participate in gambling activities. By stopping online gambling ads and leaving behind offline gambling houses or casinos to operate, the Australian government won't achieve her goals. The best alternative, is by encouraging parents to improve moral instructions on their underage children, not to venture into gambling. If they see casinos houses as kids, they can develop interest as adults. I read some responses about parental control, it can work for some kids, not all kids can be restricted from gambling through parental control.

It's been a few months already since the news and so far nothing changed here on the forum. The ban seems to be focused on Australia and wasn't picked up by other countries. In my country I haven't heard about any political movement that wants to ban gambling advertising. When I look on all the ads we have over here it would be crazy to not allow gambling ads, but then all the other things. The most common ads I notice are either for alcohol or cigarettes. The huge hype about e-cigarettes and vapes can be seen on billboards on every big corner. It would be unfair to ban on specific industry and allow everything else. The question is also how such a law could be enforced if ads are only displayed online. Banning something in Australia should have no real impact for the majority of users here on the forum.

It's better given that gambling can be influence from other people aside from advertisement from the internet. The root problem is gambling so yes, I think it's better to tell the child or teens about the negative effect of gambling just like how we tell them about not using drugs or some addictive substance like cigarettes. Advertisement nowadays is harder to control, imagine those free to use application on our mobile phone has an ads to access other features of it. So no matter how much we block advertisement, the maximum effect we can only do is to minimize it and not removing it entirely on other people phone.

well, if the situation has changed, unlike what I said before, there are other ways, after blocking gambling advertisements or any effort to prevent advertisements from entering your smartphone, there are other ways to prevent young people from gambling just because of their high curiosity when seeing gambling advertisements friend smartphone.
so its like this, if the efforts I mentioned can not prevent all of this, parents must have an approach to their children to provide knowledge regarding any dangers related to accessing gambling so that slowly as parents they will provide knowledge that indoctrinates their children thinking to be afraid of accessing gambling and will not carry out any gambling activity after being given knowledge of the dangers of being addicted to gambling. so this method will be more appropriate for those of us who have concerns as parents about preventing our children from gambling.

That is why online casinos can always survive when there is a rejection or removal of advertisements made by the casino. They can still create other advertisements and distribute them to many sites easily. And this makes parents pay more attention to their children, especially children who are starting to reach adolescence because adolescence is a time when they try to want to know many things. As parents, we cannot fully supervise them daily because we are also busy with work. But at least we can still pay attention to them, and this attention is not only about giving them what they want but also paying attention to their situation and talking to them so that we understand their world. If necessary, we can also try to get to know his friends so that we can contact them if necessary. Limiting their access to the internet could be one solution, but we also have to be able to explain to them why we are doing it so that they don't misunderstand our intentions.

Yes, I also think about the possibility that could happen because with the progress of the internet, as it is now, they can find casinos easily, let alone deal with blocking problems, because I see many teenagers who can unblock certain sites they are not allowed to visit. And that makes many teenagers go down the wrong path, putting them in difficulties they and their parents have never faced.

Moreover, the development of social media has also advanced so that it can be a place for teenagers to learn many things. Parents should always be concerned about providing supervision and attention to their children so they don't go wrong. And I think if parents can approach their children well, they will understand and try not to take the wrong path because their parents will always guide them.

The advertisements won't appear on their smartphones, but the ads can appear on their friend's smartphones when hanging out. It will make them want to know more about the site, and sooner or later, they will try gambling. The curiosity of today's teenagers is greater than that of teenagers in previous years, so parents need to be closer to their children so they can provide understanding.

That is right. As much as we want to protect our children from the harm that they can get from gambling, then as parents it is our responsibility to manage what’s been appearing in their smart phones so they won’t be attracted or influence by the gambling ads. Gambling is only suitable for adults since they have the means to control their gambling habit if ever. For minors, at least they should not be exposed on it so they won’t develop the urge to gamble at a very early age.