alt Hacker NewsCan 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.
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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.
It's interesting that one of the tax free investment/savings choices in the UK is basically a lottery.
>Can we do gambling ads next?
As long as we ban ads for stock trading platforms (i.e. gambling for the professional classes) at the same time.
i was going to comment on this. gambling ads of all kinds, sky-bet, sky vegas casino + whatever in their hydra form. in depressed places like luton - you see how gambling has destroyed the little that remained.
ban gambling companies from sponsoring sports teams, from being associated with sports teams etc.
I'm not in the UK, but yeah it's nothing short of fucking disgusting how plastered TV is with these incessant gambling ads. "Gamble on slots on your phone while you're in the metro, the hairdresser, the dentist!" they shout, at kids and adults alike, 2 times every minute on every commercial break. Disgusting.
Or massive vaping ads on the side of school buses.
I wonder if a prohibition to have gambling ads on TV would affect the Premier League teams that have gambling sponsorships
The warnings for gambling ads are particularly infuriating.
Like what would anyone think of a smoking warning of “when the fun stops, stop”
The business is probably owned by some rich and influential chap who eagerly shares with the right people in the parliament.
Sarcasm I hope...
Considering Labour's connection to gambling companies [0] probably not.
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/28/tory...