UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
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Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#2The government will never intervene while the UK gambling industry contributes so much money. In 2022, the total figure was about £14 billion. See https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/annual-report-a...
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#3I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless. But I think one exception is when they promote products which are bad.
Tobacco ads are already banned - gambling should 100% be a banned ad category. So should mobile apps that are basically gambling in disguise.
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#4Blairs government deregulated gambling to a large extent, hoping for some tax back from large casinos in theory at least.
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#5I've never made a bet before, on an app or in a betting shop and have no inclination to ever do so. However, in the UK I'm bombarded with gambling (bingo and 'games') advertisements on daytime TV aimed at trying to convince me it's actually in some way fun to pittle away my money. Then if I watch anything after 10pm on a UK streaming service or live advertising funded TV, I'm absolutely battered with endless gambling site adverts. I'm not exaggerating, every single one of them.
I think the government's sat with it's fingers crossed hoping to ride this wave and reap the rewards until it has to come out with the obligatory crackdown on this psychopathic industry it's allowing to fester and expand at an alarming rate.
It's an epidemic here but it's all fun though guys isn't it? Guys? Nothing wrong with a flutter now and then!
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#6Blairs government deregulated gambling to a large extent, hoping for some tax back from large casinos in theory at least.
industry is basically a tax on the government's paid out social services
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#7I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless. But I think one exception is when they promote products which are bad. Tobacco ads are already banned - gambling should 100% be a banned ad category. So should mobile apps that are basically gambling in disguise.
How do you feel about advertising alcohol, Gacha games, MLM businesses and things like that?
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#8I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless. But I think one exception is when they promote products which are bad. Tobacco ads are already banned - gambling should 100% be a banned ad category. So should mobile apps that are basically gambling in disguise.
Gambling ads are banned in my country but we get bombarded by them on YouTube. Me and a bunch of people I've talked to have reported them many times but nothing happens.
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#9I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless. But I think one exception is when they promote products which are bad. Tobacco ads are already banned - gambling should 100% be a banned ad category. So should mobile apps that are basically gambling in disguise.
What is bad? Alcohol? Cheap clothes made to be worn a handful times and that shed microplastics all over the place? Gratuitous consumption solely for the purpose of signaling wealth? Political parties that want to restrict people’s rights?
Re: UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked
#10The government will never intervene while the UK gambling industry contributes so much money. In 2022, the total figure was about £14 billion. See https://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/report/annual-report-a...
It’s a really inefficient tax as the net economic loss is well past £14 billion. One argument is gambling is simply something people like to do, but in that case some regulations would be expected.
Where it makes sense is when you’re pulling in outside money from foreigners, but I don’t think many people go to the UK to gamble.