Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/15/australias-social-media-ban-was-pushed-by-ad-agency-focused-on-gambling-ads-it-didnt-want-banned/Open linkView original on lemmy.radio
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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.
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
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.
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.
Also groups like clubs NSW are too big and too corrupt
Lol. Lmao even.
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.
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
Social media companies win, gambling companies win, the govenment wins. Everyones a winner!