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Australian doctors call for clampdown on social media influencers allegedly glamorising poker machines

www.theguardian.com

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Humanity is just the worst. Who the fuck is glorifying gambling besides the parasites running the gambling?
We need anti addiction laws passed in marketing and sales.
- We already do have such laws (or is it a voluntary industry code?)
  There is a statement after each audio/video but if the ad appears on your phone you will probably skip past the warning and only hear the first few seconds which subconsciously still influences some people into gambling.
They should be prosecuting and fining the influencer, and the platform and the company that sponsored them. All broke the laws on advertising.
Edit: dining to fining. Stupid spellcheck.
- oh 'fining'. Because I suspect plenty of politicians would take them to a restaurant and make a deal.
  
  I don't know that the influencers.would have enought resources or influence to do that. So start with them and if they don't want crazy fines, they need to provide who paid them. Obviously the media companies they appeared on should be fined too.
  If the companies promoting poker machines through illegal means are named, one option instead of a fine would be licence lost due to breach. Some of the biggest gambling companies like Star and crown have faced lost licence and fines. More follow through will help regulate. If some fail, it's no loss and a warning to others.
  For companies that repeatedly breach, criminal prosecution of the people doing so is probably better than fines.
I've seen some of these and it's reddit off putting when you know what's going on. Whether these people are supported by gambling companies or not, they're saying everything the gambling companies aren't allowed to in their ads with none of the disclaimers
- they’re saying everything the gambling companies aren’t allowed to in their ads with none of the disclaimers
  For all intents and purposes, "influencers" are ads. It's a shame that law doesn't seem to keep up with these simple workarounds.
Influencers are pests and an insidious blight on humanity, but this feels like a new low for them.
- That's what they are aiming for. They want to be the most outlandish so people see then
It's is telling though, to be able to glamorise being bad at maths.
I vote that all this screen time instead be filled with Life Be In It ads.

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