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No gambling taxes? Must be a money laundering heaven.
there are taxes, but they are largely on the earnings of the gaming companies
In theory, all the money wagered is money that has already paid income tax at some point so why tax it again?
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It's interesting that the UK has banned gambling ads online, but not on TV. Combined with the fact that they regulate cryptocurrencies as gambling, that's why you get no UK crypto ads online. For example, the PayPal UK front page doesn't even mention that you can buy crypto there.
Do you have the link that regulate crypto as gambling in UK? I tried Google it but no luck.
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I think a fair and reasonable advertisement policy is to ban all advertisements during "children's programming hours", or 0800 to 1600 when school is not in session. During "Prime Time" hours of 0500-0800 and 1600-2300, adverts should be limited to luxury goods (e.g., fashion), government PSAs, and non-addictive goods or services (NO drugs, NO tobacco, NO gambling, and NO stock trading, to name but a few). Between 23…
I wonder what proportion of children are still watching mainstream TV? My son (4) mainly watches Disney+ and Netflix.
Is there a name for an ideology that says all social and economic problems can be solved through mass psychology? You could call it psychohistory perhaps, but there's got to be a newer term. Seems like it's the dominant ideology of a variety of technocrats. Yes there are psychological aspects to governance but more and more it's becoming the only solution to all problems. Obesity is skyrocketing? It's the psychology.…
Can we do gambling ads next? We banned tobacco ads and then seemingly forgot the lesson that it's actually bad to let advertisers shove addictive and self-destructive products in the publics face, including to former addicts at risk of relapse.
Let's just ban all ads!
So, Casper mattress wants to have an ad spot in a podcast or a YouTube video in the video itself? That's ok.
YouTube wants to include an ad about a mattress in a video about home renovation? Also ok.
Stack overflow wants to show an ad for GitHub? Is ok to me.
YouTube wants to show an ad about Casper mattress based on whether someone has clicked on an ad about mattresses before? Banned!
This alone would be a great start.
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Considering Labour's connection to gambling companies [0] probably not. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/28/tory...
Funny how you can buy British politicians for dirt cheap. In India or the US, it would take at least $100k-200k to get a single politician's attention at the bare minimum, while in the UK you can influence party positions for 25k quid.
Is there a name for an ideology that says all social and economic problems can be solved through mass psychology? You could call it psychohistory perhaps, but there's got to be a newer term. Seems like it's the dominant ideology of a variety of technocrats. Yes there are psychological aspects to governance but more and more it's becoming the only solution to all problems. Obesity is skyrocketing? It's the psychology.…
The entire doc is on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GFwDc17WZ-A
Is there a name for an ideology that says all social and economic problems can be solved through mass psychology? You could call it psychohistory perhaps, but there's got to be a newer term. Seems like it's the dominant ideology of a variety of technocrats. Yes there are psychological aspects to governance but more and more it's becoming the only solution to all problems. Obesity is skyrocketing? It's the psychology.…
There is a reason that advertising and media influence is everywhere, it is a cheap and has a decent return on investment, whether that is actual revenue or just a shift in people’s perspective.