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Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The gambling industry, facing its own potential ban

Considering how key this part is to the point, it's rather understated in this article.

In September 2022, Australia started a Parliamentary inquiry into online gambling. In June 2023 the inquiry handed down its full report, including 31 recommendations. 2 of those recommendations included a phased full ban of all advertising of online gambling.

Parliamentary rules require a response to inquiries within 6 months. 30 months later there still has not been any official response.

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah the speed with which the social media minimum age law was passed was astonishing. The public had just 24 hours to make submissions, and those submissions—thousands of them—were given just 4 hours of consideration by the parliamentary committee.

Not an invasive surveillance power, but an extremely untransparent piece of rushed legislation that's already proving an abject failure as predicted by the many critics.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The PM Is not the kind of person to sell out Australia for the gambling industry. Labor as a party is beholden to the gambling industry because money talks in Australian politics. Sure they did pass political donation reform, but the press is beholden to advertisers and so the advertisers have a lot of influence in the press.

I'm starting to question whether the free press should even exist, or can exist under capitalism.

[–] techpeakedin1991@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

I’m starting to question whether the free press should even exist, or can exist under capitalism.

It cannot. To begin with, having one rich fuck have their voice be amplified to a thousand or a hundred thousand times that of the average person, merely because their wealth allows them to buy and therefore control media, is obviously not democratic.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Also groups like clubs NSW are too big and too corrupt

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol. Lmao even.

[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Coolest thing ever? Casinos are fighting shadow casinos to define them as gambling. As casinos do go through regulations while tech bros add gambling to anything and skirt regulations.

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

It was also the brainchild of an unelected American with CIA ties who for some reason gets to decide what we can and can't see on the internet under the guide of eSafety

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Social media companies win, gambling companies win, the govenment wins. Everyones a winner!