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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/28/ads-for-online-gambling-should-be-banned-in-australia-within-three-years-inquiry-recommends

If this should be implemented will it affect bitcointalk casinos? As we all know most established and new casinos come to bitcointalk to launch their ANN thread and carry out signature promotion campaigns which can be regarded as ads in a sense. If ads should be banned will their promotion in Bitcointalk also end?

Next time when going through an article make sure you get what it's about before you run to bitcointalk to create a thread.

The article states "ads for online gambling in Australia should be banned" it's only in Australia and not the entire world so I doubt it will have any effect on bitcointalk. If it was a world wide situation which seems impossible for me that would have been a different ball game but since they're only restricting it for those in Australia then it will have effect on bitcointalk whatsoever

Try to know this that gambling ads cannot be banned by any means, we have to know that except the gambling platforms decided to put a stop to them there may not be a means to avoid this incidence at all, the two sides involved in this mostly benefited from it which is the promoting casinos and the promoters themselves, some gamblers also make uses of this to their advantage because they get updates and offerers through this except for those not interested in seeing ads in their experience being online, the forum casinos has nothing to do with this either nor do they get affected by this decision since their own advertisement here is not by ads except for other platforms they also appears.

I believe that ads are the right of any business so long as the country whose through its IP is being used to send the ads allows gambling. Once the country could be entitled to taxes generated by gambling, it should be able to relax its stance on gambling companies as it would be so unfair for them to disallow promotion for what they are collecting tax for. A website, app or platform should be the sole decider if they would allow or reject gambling ads, some are even doing it without any issue.

As for it affecting "bitcointalk," it will surely do if this is general, after all, all these sites come here to promote what they offer.

One thing I have noticed about this life is that different countries will have different opinions about something. As some government do not want gambling ads all over the sites and places their country people are visiting which is pertaining  to their country, other countries will regulate gambling ads instead in different ways. Some countries will not even regulate gambling ads at all. With what I have seen, it will not be easy to stop gambling ads on this form, this forum is banned in Russia, but Russians visit this forum most because the IP restriction can easily be bypassed and not that gambling is banned in the country.

It is important to note that regulations surrounding online gambling can vary by jurisdiction, and it's always advisable to stay updated on the latest laws and guidelines in your specific region. It's possible that certain countries or regions may impose restrictions on the promotion of online gambling platforms, including those on Bitcointalk.
If such a ban were to be implemented in Australia, it would primarily focus on mainstream media and advertising channels rather than specifically targeting online forums or Bitcoin casino promotions. Nonetheless, it's essential to monitor any legal developments and consult local regulations to ensure compliance with the specific rules governing online gambling advertising in your jurisdiction.

these are local bans at a local lecel I think these solutions can't be applied on an (international) forum. among other things, this ban is already present in Italy.

Here in my country (in practice) it was something useful (there were really questionable advertisements related gambling and directed to any age :( ).

What kind of restrictions? Only what can be effective is for a country to ban gambling directly. The gambling sites on this forum are not even providing gambling services to people in the countries that ban gambling. But as for gambling ads or gambling promotion, that is not going to work. People will always visit this forum as long as they have their VPN and Tor on their device.

You know that it's with Australia right? If ever it were to happen, nothing is going to happen in Bitcointalk because its cryptocurrencies, and probably the article talks about the ones in major ads or something. Unless it has something to do more with enticing or something. I think signature campaigns are a sign that they exist and are not enticing ads or something.

That only happens in Australia, that's not an international law. All that means is that gambling ads will only be banned in Australia and as far as I understand, that only includes TV ads, not ads places on websites and even in that case, they'll only be able to restrict local, Australian websites, not other websites. So, bitcointalk and casinos that promote on bitcointalk can feel safe in case Australia bans online gambling ads on websites.

It’s mentioned about ads that are displayed in Australia specifically. So yes, it does not apply to the whole world. Moreover, if you talk about signature campaign promotions, then it’s just a smaller portion of advertising that is done in people’s signatures. but the article that you have mentioned is purely focused on mainstream advertisements like billboards or television ads. Moreover, if you see bitcointalk signature ads, they are only for the members of bitcointalk, whereas in the OP, the ads that are being discussed are being seen by the whole mass.

Bitcointalk and other places are different. And Bitcointalk is a forum providing information about crypto and a place for promotions. In addition, Bitcointalk is also not bound by regulators so promotions about gambling can still run.

But if the promotion is done in a country, it has to be approved by the government because they make the rules. People wishing to place ads must contact them for permission. If that country prohibits advertising, gambling ads cannot be displayed because later, it will make people try them out of curiosity.

The ban is only in Australia and not worldwide,which means that it will only affect them in Australia on gambling ads. Here in bitcointalk,it wouldn't affect any casino or promotions on the casino. This is the biggest crypto community online and a local restriction wouldn't change anything here. Government in different countries has their own way on tackling gambling to prevent their citizens from being an addict. Gambling is legal and can't be stopped internationally,because these casinos are sponsoring some major sport firms. Gambling ads is increasing day by day.

Already several countries have gambling ads banned partially and completely. Few of the countries include Germany, Spain, Italy, Uk and the list goes on. Does this mean that gambling isn't possible in those countries. Certain states have the ban on gambling where it isn't possible to gamble. In Qatar gambling is banned, if you remember the ads running around the ground during the days of FIFA you'll understand how effective is the ban. Ads were found around, the necessary steps need to taken on the actors and actresses, which is the effective way to ban ads. They should give the right information, not the mesmerizing chance of winning big.

No, it won't. Technically not everyone knows or is interested in bitcointalk forum.



Once again, the answer is no. There are specifications for areas where the ads should be ban and websites are not included. I support ad being ban on sports jersey and tv at a certain time of the day. They government or the authorities can implement that but, on the internet, nope. That's not possible.

More countries are opening up to casinos/ gambling especially in Saudi due to the lucrativeness. Would be foolish to not capitalize on such opportunity

Misleading title, I would say as it says that Ads for online gambling to be banned in Australia. You missed Australia mate, it changes the whole conclusion of the post.
There are 200 countries and you missing one in title makes Online Gambling Ads to be banned in all the 200 countries, haha.

Also, Gambling is legal in many countries and most of the gambling platforms also run sports book, they will use that to bring customers to the platform. Not a big deal for them if this happens.

I also thought that it is for the whole world and we found out it's only in Australia, I don't think it will have a direct effect here in Bitcointalk, casinos here do not serve the Australian people only.

The title is quite misleading  :D the gambling community is not all Australian, OP should get the fact there are already countries that ban the advertisement of gambling ads we have one thread here about England's banning of gambling ads but no impact whatsoever.

The online casino industry is flourishing, and how can the authorities be sure that they can stop Australian gamblers from pursuing their passion, gamblers always find a way, especially those who are used to playing in online casinos for entertainment.

Top game providers like NetEnt already ban players from Australia so it's not really going to affect casinos that are launched here. If there a large group of sports bettors here that come from AU then it could be a bit problematic.

Their Government cannot ban the ads running here but they can block bitcointalk.org from being accessed by their citizens if they decide to do so.

Seems like it's country-specific, so I don't think it's going to hit bitcointalk that much, we aren't under any legal laws for a specific country afaik anyway. In the first place, I don't think this is going to be a permanent thing, even in Australia, since it's a pretty big industry in itself and brings in a lot of money as well. They might just try to approach it from a new angle or something if they're actually forced to. If they ban gambling completely like other countries, then maybe, but if it was targeted towards ads only? Specific yea, which may be helpful, but I doubt it'd be permanent as well due to that.

I don't think that will be the case. But spreading misinformation like this could spread as a FUD. No, it won't end. First, the scope is only at australia. Second, it lies under the casinos, bitcointalk forum is a forum where people share ideas and networks. It won't end there so stop overcomplicating simple and misunderstood information. Bitcointalk I believe is a great platform for beginners and for those experts to interact with others.

This is rather country specific, OP.
Besides, even if gambling ads are banned or limited in some sense there are still ways vulnerable people could be affected by gambling, when they are not in the age of partaking it.

For example, we can talk about the loot boxes in video games or the streamers in YT and other platforms, what is the point to ban those ads in a context when children and teens have more access than ever to internet and alternative way of finding people gambling onlive?

At least those ads during a sport match make sense and it is more suitable in the context of people being into sportbetting.

As I've said many times before, if you remove advertising from the media, it will definitely appear elsewhere, most likely on the Internet, and in places where the authorities can't reach, so I believe that fighting gambling in the media is a waste of resources. At the moment the advertisers get paid for the number of times an advertisement is viewed by a certain audience, so I'm more than sure that the one who is targeted by this advertisement will see it anyway.

I don't think that banning gambling ads is the right way forward, and I don't understand why it's targeting online gambling ads specifically. Gambling addiction is a problem, but not something that affects the majority of gamblers. In this regard, it's similar to alcohol, although the latter harms the body of a drinker physically and can lead to worse consequences. I googled the online advertising policy for alcohol in Australia, and it's not banned but is somewhat restricted. They could, IMO, do the same with gambling ads.
In any case, it's just a proposal that might not get adopted, and if it does, it's only about Australia and only about ads in Australia. So I think it won't affect much of the marketing and activities of crypto casinos we see on this forum.

Online casinos are big sponsors and organizers of sporting events, of which I don't think a sporting event will be televised live without they running their ads, as that's the only way they get exposure and make money to keep sponsoring those sporting events. So if the Australian parliaments may not have been okay by it and wishes to implement a ban on ads about online gambling casinos, that's literary their business and have absolutely nothing to do with Bitcointalk or any of it's casinos, as I don't think any is Australian-centered base but operates globally.

Sure, the worries about online betting are clear. But, a total ad ban on all media platforms seems extreme. Consider the ripple effects, folks. Regarding Bitcointalk casinos, its crucial to separate the laws for traditional media and online forums. How do you enforce such a ban on a global forum with varying jurisdictions? Also, an ad ban doesnt necessarily kill all promotion on forums like Bitcointalk. Expect a strategic shift with casinos engaging directly with users instead of straightforward ads.

Agreed, in this regard a specific country is mentioned. Moreover, gambling is still not legal in many countries where there is no direct advertisement in the media. This is nothing new and the government of a country can ban gambling if they wants to do. But gambling is no longer a small business. It has now become a large industry. Even if it is banned in one region, its influence is growing worldwide. But I think that even if gambling ads are banned in national media, it will be very difficult to remove them from online.

Let say its applicable on all country then maybe since there will be a huge chance that those casino owners will find another way to market their business. And shifting to crypto casino will be there another option since they can use any crypto platforms to advertise their casino as well maybe there will be no government can bother them by doing this.

Also I don't think this forum will get affected in that implementation and also don't get worried about it since I believe that suggestion will never happen to that particular or even including to other country since somehow gambling industry brings a lot of money to them.

OP is not fully aware of the influence of Bitcointalk, and he undermines it, its only Australia I don't think there is a big concern at all, even big countries like China or the US cannot stop the casino industry from growing, Bitcointalk gambling section is already fully established that if only one country it will not have an impact on Bitcointalk and the whole online casino industry.

The news you provided about is ban online gambling ads in Australia, but you're relating it with this forum, now do you think all of users in this forum are Australian? the fact is this forum following the US laws, not Australian laws. Whenever the Australia want to ban online gambling ads, there's no effect to Bitcointalk since there's no laws in US to ban online gambling ads.

The proposal to ban gambling ads in Australia is mainly because of the increase in number of gamblers not up to the qualified gambling age. Since ads and promotions are not age selective, when gambling platforms and casino websites make advertisement, it also attracts young people who can easily want to gamble as it attracts the qualified in age too. In Australia, it is possible that the number of gambling advertisement has increased that is not becoming dangerous to the lawmakers are trying to control it, but the situation is not the same in other places of the world. So if gambling ads are banned in Australia, it will not have an effect in this forum, only gambling platforms and media platforms under the country will be bound to obey.

Yeah almost casinos in this forum use Curacao gambling license and they're prohibit people who live in US, China and other strict or private countries, but as we can see the demand of online casinos is still big. If there's a weak gambling license that not prohibit any countries, online casino will become very big because there's no limit for any countries to gamble.

This is just in Australia. It wil help younger people not be exposed to casinos. Even google ban gambling related ads and I think facebook as well.  But think if the ban includes the influencers, then influencers on social media will be affected and will lose casino sponsors.

Bitcointalk is different platform for advertising. I doubt it will affect the crypto advertising here. This is a specific crypto community.

It won't affect bitcointalk I don't think there are much casino operating from Australia on the forum unless the government target bitcointallk specifically then the forum has to willing restrict their members in Australia not to be available to view ads relating to online casinos.

Those the government of Australia are targeting are platforms like Google and YouTube that operate in the country and television commercial with that of radios as well. They'll have to avoid allowing gambling ads on their stations also doing sport games as they said.

Gambling has it negative effects and if it can't be contained then the solution is a ban as the government of Australia are suggesting. They could work out a solution to allow those ads while not endangering their citizens but that'll have to be done will the ads are still banned.

Bro, you need to know that the gambling industry existed before you were born into this world, estimated around 2300 BC. Maybe gambling wasn't the same as it is now, now it's sophisticated, people can bet online and use crypto currency, but from the past until now no one has been able to get rid of gambling advertisements, on the contrary gambling advertisements are wider and bigger.

You do not have the authority and power to prohibit gambling advertisements, even though you descend from the seventh heaven.

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Bitcointalk is not a means and the main thing in gambling advertising, this gambling existed long before Bitcointalk was created in 2009, it seems you have to read and see this one news about: Top Social Media platforms and Policy Updates regarding Gambling Advertising. (https://www.translationroyale.com/gambling-related-policy-updates-on-major-social-media-platforms/)

A brief description of gambling advertising.

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Not sure in that regard, the conclusion or the answer is below in the quote.


I hope you understand advertising and the consequences of banning gambling ads on Bitcointalk.

Did you know if there are many countries forbid gambling, but the casino is accept those countries and there's no problem if they want to gamble.

Did you know if there are many countries have banned Bitcoin on everything e.g. buy, sell, mine and hold, but this forum still accept those countries and theymos created local board for them.

So what's it mean? other country laws can't intervene this forum.

each country makes laws and prohibitions based on the creation of well being of its citizens, I don't know anything about gambling in australia and for that reason I had to resort to google, I did a little research to understand why politicians want to adopt these measures, as I could see from various sources that I could read and that the gambling situation in australia is something very serious and worrying, to have a little idea, in this article:

Gambling Addiction in Australia: Highest Percentage of Gamblers in the World (https://www.thecabinsydney.com.au/blog/gambling-addiction-in-australia-highest-percentage-of-gamblers-in-the-world/)

Australians have already been accused of being the guys who are most addicted to gambling, I don't know to what extent these data can be true because politicians, when they don't want something, use TV channels and newspapers to manipulate information and create fear, terror, uncertainty and panic in people. only a person who lives in australia could tell us if this is really true or not, according to that article it says that more than 80% of the population of australia participates in games of chance, but it seems to me that this is not true, because the australia has 25.69 million people, it is not possible that another 20.00 million people are gambling

looking at this, I see something very wrong with the decision of these politicians, they will blame gambling because they probably don't want gambling in their country and not because gambling is a problem, with that OP you can see that in other countries in the world where people are more free, there is no problem in gambling and their governments are fine with that, so don't transform astralia's problem for the whole world

The government may ban gambling advertisements in all media, but that will not stop gambling advertisements from appearing in other media, especially since the spread of the internet is now getting better. Casinos can find a place to promote, and maybe they can further expand their business from a new place.

And if it's true that the ban will be enforced, I don't think it will matter because people will be able to find those gambling ads again or have already found a casino that suits them, so they don't have to look for another one. And I don't think it will impact Bitcointalk because this forum is independent and not bound by anything.

Yes, it's true that there are many countries out there that prohibit gambling, but some casinos still accept citizens of these countries to play gambling there.
But there are also not a few casinos that prohibit certain jurisdictions, it's just that this prohibition also has reasons that are quite clear so that gamblers from those countries really cannot play at casinos that have jurisdictions that prohibit them.
It's just that gamblers also have other ways that are quite risky, such as using PVN so that the IP address is not detected in which country the gambler lives.

Thanks for the brief research you just made, letting us know what may have been the likely reason behind the ban motion made by the Australian parliament on gambling ads. And I also made my research checking if poverty might have also contributed to this increase in gambling addiction, and I got to find out that of the 26million population in Australia, more than 13% lives in poverty (i.e over 3,319,000, including 761,000 children), (https://povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Poverty-in-Australia-2023_Who-is-affected.pdf) which is also likely to be the cause for those who might have seen gambling as the last hope of the common man due to governments failure to provide the basic needs of life and jobs to get the people to engage in meaningful activities. Because an idle mind is the devil's workshop.

Are you aware of any bitcointalk's casinos being promoted in Australia during the sports matches or at the local media? It's hard for me to say, because I don't have access to the local content of that country, but that would be the only reasonable justification to say casinos promoted here could be affected negatively by this new measure by australian politicians. If not, nothing will change for crypto casinos, as their target public is gathered on another platforms and through another marketing models.

As I observe, crypto casinos promote their brands on platforms with global access, without targeting specific countries or local medias to do the advertisement job for them. Even on this matter crypto seems pretty decentralized, and that is good, because such censorship from governments don't have a heavy impact on the gambling industry.

in the title of the article alone, you'll already know that the gambling ban will only be in Australia, not sure why you thought this would affect gambling casinos that advertise here in the forum.

anyway, I am still glad they are taking steps on trying to prevent the younger generation from being too exposed to gambling.

We are all trying to make a living here.
Yes, ann threads are to promote a specific project likewise with normal advertisements but a more interactive one. Difference is using personalities which are just popular. Meaning, audiences in ann threads of this forum are atleast aware of what they are engaging themselves with. Unlike with mainstream ads wherein some of the audience are just hooked because of the personalities used to run the ad.

But if it is, what's the point? 'coz it promotes gambling and gambling is an addictive activity? We all know that but no one pushes or requires us to engage into it,other than ourselves basically. It would take one's initiative to do so. If this is due to country limitations, still this is web 3.0 wherein governments has nothing to do with.

Especially because casinos can contact the webmaster of a websites like a well-known crypto blogs/news which they could buy an adspace or banner on their pages. This had been known to happen especially if they see the blog is commonly viewed by crypt users.

Advertising is a big industry and there are adnetworks pretty much brokering traffic to websites to target audiences that are in their demographics. The government of Australia may implement banning gambling-related ads but the websites can still serve those ads, it's unstoppable.

With the developing technology that we have right now, online advertisement is the best marketing strategy that casinos businesses could do and it is visible on all types of social media platforms and popular sites. We can't get rid of them because they are even present in some TV ads. The best thing that we can do is to guide and advise the younger generation about the risks of gambling addiction.
We should still do our part as adults in reminding the younger generation just so they wouldn't get attracted to gambling ads. I don't think signature campaigns should be banned because we're on the right platform to do it. Most of us here are adults and are aware of how gambling works. Gambling promotions here are appropriate since they won't affect most gamblers negatively especially now that topics about gambling addictions are already existing on this forum.

This shouldn't affect the signature campaigns for crypto casinos because it's unlikely that the forum admins will cooperate with them. On the other hand, most crypto casinos have Australia under their geo-restriction list, so they're not losing anything if gambling ads do get banned in Australia in the future. I doubt they can stop every gambling advertisement we see on different platforms when they're only limited to the ones under their control or until the other party agrees with their plan.

I don't see how banning ads in Australia can affect this forum. The article did not say say online gambling ads should be banned world wide, its just in Australia. I also don't think they can stop people from Australia from using the forum except the site would be banned in Australia, which can still be bypassed.

I'm not in support of banning ads for online gambling. Every company should have a right to advertise its business, as far as that company is allowed to do business in that particular country.
Alcohol also causes damage, but alcohol companies are not banned from having online ads in Australia.

They will always claim that gambling ads are the main cause of gambling addiction in the country so it needs to be checked. I don't subscribe to banning these adverts totally but it can be regulated. There should be another way of controlling these adverts to protect underage gamblers. The gambling sector is providing jobs for many people, this policy can lead to job loss.

The government can not pretend that it is not getting a substantial amount of revenue from this sector. This is just a recommendation by a legislative inquiry, let's see if it will be implemented. After all some leading politicians received funds from gaming companies during the campaign. An example is Michelle Rowland, the communication minister of Australia, whose ministry will enforce the ban. But it is good that the gaming sector has been given three years to look for alternative means of advert.

The world is like a system and each subsystem depend on each other to function properly. It might have an indirect effect but it will be insignificant. I don't also think that Australian laws are binding on the forum. This forum has its laws and it is not influenced by the law of any country. So gambling ads will continue in bitcointalk. The only effect is that accessing the forum might be restricted because of the gambling ads in the forum.

looks like some answers have been answered but I just want to add that gambling ads can't seem to be stopped for several reasons and the main thing is that the article is only in certain countries and if gambling ads are banned what about countries that allow gambling? and what about the name of the gambling site that is written on the jerseys of the players of the football team or other sports?

so there is no need to think too complicated because until whenever gambling advertisements can never be banned for various reasons that cannot be annulled.

Wow, the threshold for banning adverts is that they are annoying? That would wipe out pretty much 80-90%+ of advertising if it's the only criteria. It's pathetically vague and they clearly don't want to go all out against gambling companies with actual reasons, I could see such logic facing a lot of trouble in court if it was the main instigator of new laws being set up. It would not affect bitcointalk in the slightest because as far as I know the servers are not based in Australia and the Australian government has zero jurisdiction over it. You need to learn more about how laws and international enforcement works before suggesting such a silly thing in future. It wouldn't affect the casinos either, because they'll likely be making money from other markets instead and just stop paying for advertising in Asutralia.

Of course because each country has its own laws regarding gambling and gambling ads. There are already some countries where gambling is banned, but id did not affect bitcointalk, just as there are countries were bitcoin is banned, but it doesn't stop people from these countries from making accounts ere and being a part of the community.
Bitcointalk staff cannot obey every single rule imposed by every single country, because it's impossible, especially since some of them contradict each other.

From what I understand, this forum isn't really about promoting online casinos, but more about the users and their discussions. So, even if Australia decides to pass a law like that, it shouldn't really affect this platform. I mean, what can the administrators really do? Start tracking where every visitor is coming from and disable user signatures for those from Australia? That sounds like it would totally go against the freedom of speech that this forum values. So, yeah, I don't think you have much to worry about. Just keep enjoying the discussions!

True. The administrator of bitcoin talk is under no obligation to obey any law regarding a ban on gambling ad unless they a letter is addressed to them that gambling adverts on the platforms should cease. Which I do not this that this is possible at all. Still I do not think that if today gambling ads are banned on the forum that it will have any positive effect or lower the rate of those who gamble or are addicted to gambling or underaged gambling. It just won't work.

This would only be implemented in Australia and it's not a worldwide thing. Therefore I don't think it will be a problem here and we won't see any casino or gambling sites being promoted on the Bitcointalk forum. Also I thin that they're notmany Australian-based casinos on this forum or maybe I could be wrong?

We already know that every country has its own government and they make different decisions. While some countries allow gambling activities there are others, especially in Muslim countries where gambling is considered a sin and I think it wouldn't be appropriate to promote it there. :)

Absolutely, and even if in the OP's country gambling advertising is banned, I think in the long term there will still be gambling advertising done covertly or they will somehow figure out a solution, because there will always be a way for their gambling advertising to exist.
and what we have to realize is that gambling has been a part of our culture since ancient humans, so no matter how a country prohibits it, there will still be gambling and it will never disappear.
and many countries prohibit gambling or gambling advertising and also many countries do not prohibit or legalize it. So, it won't affect this great forum and besides the users of this forum are from different countries and not in one country.

OP, you should edit the title and include the word Australia in it cause it's kind of misleading.

I don't know this will really affect the bitcointalk in any way, since they proposed a ban against ads showing in the matches like while they are streaming or even if they banned Gambling related ads from sponsoring a team won't affect the bitcointalk at all. Don't forget they didn't ban the Gambling they just banned the ads and it's kind of common and not really going to make any effect.

This forum will not be affected by such regulation, however this is something that I thought was coming, as we know gambling has gotten way more popular during the previous years due to a combination of factors which created the perfect storm for this to happen, so now some governments have taken note and they want to try to protect some vulnerable citizens which may become addicted to gambling, however like always such bans are hardly effective and those that want to gamble will find a way to do so despite the advertising ban they are trying to put in place.

This is an anonymous and free forum and I think anyone is allowed to promote their business here as long as they are not breaking any law.What happens in Australia is of no concern for a forum is global.Signature campaign are a great way to increase visibility of the brand being promoted,you can go and just check the Services section here in the forum and you will see that there are a lot of them running from these a lot quite some are from different crypto casinos,meaning the ads being banned in TV most likely as in Internet will be difficult,there are always VPN-s to use and I think Australia government knows it very well.Nothing will end in this forum as long as everything is done based following the rules of the forum.

First, there are no bitcointalk casinos maybe you're referring to casinos that are giving ads here and I don't think they'll go after here, this isn't on their respective zone to impose their rules. This is a free speech forum and they wouldn't surely dare to have their laws be carried out here. It's only on Australia and as far as I can understand it may just affect whoever are in Australia, I think it's just the social media platforms.

How is that a problem with the forum? I was reading through your post and felt you didn't see you were talking about a single country, Australia.  Australians can be affected but not the forum. Moreover, it is just the ads and gambling will still be going on there. I think that could be a policy to limit advertisement probably to protect the under age bettors. If ads are banned it will only bring low turnout for casinos running ads in Australia only but if same casino is running ads in other country then it is still not an issue. This is just a lesser concern on the Australian bettors and under aged.

There's no such thing or possibility that this forum would really be affected by legal matters or things on which we know that this forum isnt owned by anyone. This kind of proposal or law to be implied is surely be pertaining

into those ads that we are seeing on streaming sites or social media on which it should really be that banned or removed. Wondering on how they would really be making out such implementation on such law?
We know that in internet then there's so much  vast space on where you would be needing to look at because once you do find yourself surfing into this space then there's no way that you could be able to
avoid on not to see these things.

IP ban? Application restriction? Yes, it might be that applicable or could happen but there's no way that it would be completely be wiping on about its existence and we know that
people could really simply make use of alternatives if they wanted to or eager to play or surfing on something.

And this is not only associated with gambling ad only as many nation have their do and don't but when it comes to gambling some nations just see the act as a bad against the moral standard of the nation and therefore will also restrict anymeans that will further spread its awareness while some other nation take gambling as a legal and normal thing for example where  am from which is Nigeria gambling is legal and you will mostly different company their to advertise their sites online in every social media and the government knows and allows this act.

Adverts is a free will and the government should allow people do whatever they choose to do without going to start again and another thing is that with gambling or without gambling ads, the people would continues to use the forum without any much changes, we night see reductions in the traffic coming to the forum but the forum will be fine at long because it's not only on gambling promotion the forum is working on, there are other sources like the mixers, like the exchanges and also alts projects that does adverts on the forum and less gambling promotions gives opening for other new collaborations for new players.

Here's some example about some gambling regulations on some places.

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/06/28/S17Wl.png
Source (https://theconversation.com/gambling-act-review-how-eu-countries-are-tightening-restrictions-on-ads-and-why-the-uk-should-too-199354=)

If they can able to apply such ban then why cant on other countries?
But its true that there's still way on bypassing these bans if those gamblers would really be tending on doing so.It is really just that
due to too much exposure into gambling, youth nowadays do really gets involvement now.

Whatever names they might call themselves whether parliament or the Senate, gambling can never be ban although they could put some certain restrictions to some types of gambling ads because gambling is also part of the sectors that generate revenue to the government and it will not be fine if all restrictions is out on it. They may do that when it comes to sort events but not on a regular basis. I have nit seen when the link really point out to the general gambling ads. Not even in the main time will gambling ads can stop so we should not be wary about this kind of news.

all gambling activities ^{(gambling players, gambling businessmen and gambling advertisements)} will never be all of that because gambling already has a very large money circulation, even many powerful countries run their gambling business ^{(such as lotteries)}, while for this forum, what is gambling? a criminal activity? so gambling ads on this forum must be banned, of course, the answer is no, in fact, more and more gambling sites appear every day even though there are many that are closed because they fail to attract customers to their sites.

What would the implementation of a ban on gambling advertisements entail? Although many countries claim to have banned gambling ads on paper, in reality, they have not been entirely successful. The issue of gambling advertising is multifaceted. We encounter gambling ads on our mobile phones, billboards on the streets, and practically everywhere. The main challenge for authorities lies in enforcement. Platforms like Bitcoin talk and other internet forums might be exempted from the ban since it is unlikely that anyone would adhere to such restrictions there. The only circumstance that could lead a casino to cease advertising through their signature campaign is if they undergo a change in perspective and come to the conclusion that the casino industry is morally objectionable, prompting them to discontinue their promotion of gambling on the forum.

All of those are just like gonna be some of the promo and thoughts or even article produced to make it look like they are really after the banning of ads for online gambling.

You see that one of the biggest streaming platforms, Twitch did released a rule about that.

But where are they right now, you'll still see a lot of gambling contents on them and take note, it's not just ads but about the gambling content itself that they've made rule about against.

Perhaps they are talking about oppressive types of advertisements like popup ads (goddamn it all) that riddle every shady website on the internet. Plus those pesky ads that automatically redirect you to the gambling site when you press something from the main website you wanna visit. Either way I don’t think casino ads in bitcointalk are going to be affected as the ads here aren’t oppressive at all and are needed to keep the forum alive and running. Plus the forum’s even generous enough to give us a free option to disable all ads (although I wouldn’t suggest using it cause the ads here aren’t that pesky, plus we gotta show support to the site that helped build some of us here you know).

^That is a very simple reason, because not all countries have the same law and jurisdiction.
The ability to ban ads locally or globally depends on various factors, including the legal frameworks and regulations in place within each jurisdiction. While some jurisdictions have the authority to ban certain types of ads within their own borders, implementing a global ban on ads would require coordinated efforts among multiple countries and organizations. So tick to the point, this forum does not follow any jurisdiction and we are all free what we are going to do.

If this is what they're going after, perhaps they should also ban liquor and tobacco advertisements as well. Both of those are also addictive and can cause a lot of problems to the end-user but we're not batting an eye. Health complications on the packet of cigarettes shouldn't be enough; it should be a complete ban. Then again, if the industry does not have any backers on the government, it would be impossible to save it from these calls for strict rules and regulations.

They have been calling for this kind of ban for years now on different countries, but it's not really successful because other industries will also come along with it. They can tread ever so closely on getting this finalized but they know that their precious gold mines (or industries that they get their money from) will also be affected.

or they can alter the time when it is being promoted like middle of the night or something. just like many tobacco ads, at the end of the ad, they have disclaimer. so they can apply such type of disclaimer when it comes to gambling adverts as well.
let's admit the fact that the government is also earning huge amount of tax from gambling businesses. remember, during pandemic days, one of the very few businesses which survived was gambling industry (online), and that the government got a fair share of their revenue to sustain the financial needs of the government.

I don't think so!

From what I've seen, the ban should only be restricted to sites that are headquartered in Australia and bitcointalk.org certainly doesn't fit that.

Of course, they could extend the ban and perhaps force providers to block certain international sites, but I doubt that this would reduce the interest of advertisers here on the forum, whether in ad releases or subscription campaigns.

In my opinion, there is nothing to be afraid of based on this news.

Anyway, I believe that banning advertisements is something difficult to implement in a country, but I confess that advertisements for casinos should be better controlled so as not to reach children and teenagers so easily.

Although the OP has already been told that his argument is fundamentally flawed, I think there is an interesting point: how the banning of gambling ads in some countries should affect a global forum. So far nothing has happened, as I think the authorities have not focused on this forum and are more concerned with traditional and local media in their country, but there does seem to be a legal limbo in this respect.

Bitcointalk does not own a casino, the casino that currently has an announcement thread here has nothing to do with this forum and they are free to create threads because this is an open forum. I don't think it will affect any promotions or advertisements that casinos do in this forum and any regulations that appear will not 100% ban gambling but rather regulate it, you can see how gambling sites that sponsor UK football clubs will start to be banned displaying the logo on the club costume but can still display the name and logo on other parts, so the ban is definitely only on certain parts and because the money circulating from gambling sites is very large it is also needed by many sporting events to fund their events.

Why only banning ads? when they can ban gambling completely ? this sounds just Grandstanding but not truly for the goodness of their country .
if we are truly looking for the care of people then make gambling out and then problem will surely stopped .
problem will occur all the time as long as gambling is there  .

of course the authorities will focus more on advertisements on local or traditional social media because of the greater influence that is faster through social media which is the current trend.
and as @Strongkored said that this forum is an open place and anything in this forum does not endorse anything including gambling ads.

so there is no reason whatsoever if one day the authorities ban forums from using gambling ads, as unfair.

They can not ban gambling completely because nowadays, people are so used to gambling that if one place is banned, they will find another place to gamble. They will go to the underground casinos around the city and play in the casinos. Maybe the government can only prevent people from going to legal casinos. However, the government can not prevent illegal casinos from growing and fulfilling the desires of people who still want to gamble. It needs awareness of people not to tempt by gambling ads so they can stay away from playing gambling.

Am having a question to ask and if you can answer the question, am sure you will already have answer. Those bitcoin talk belongs to Australia? Which am sure your answer will be No. bitcointalk those not belong to any region so if Australia is banning gambling ads in all the sites in their country, then they don’t have any issue with forum here, no country can stop bitcointalk from marketing any gambling sites here, only the forum members can refuse to advertise a site if they think the site is a scam one. We have all seen different scam sites which people have being strictly warn not to advertise them, but no country can stop advertisement on the forum here.

If Australia wants to ban online or simply gambling ads, then they must become second North Korea. The reason they want to ban gambling ads is because ads are annoying, and they raise gambling addiction. First, why dont they install ads blockers, or switch TV to other channel if they see ads there, or dont look at screen when they see ads. Increased numbers of addicted to gambling is a problem, but banning ads wont help. Why dont they ban movies tv series, because people see the there violence, alcohol and drugs? Why dont they ban whole internet, because there is so much dirt in there? Why dont they become completely isolated, if they are so good and dont want anything bad in their country?

Yes, this is another attempt by the Australian government to show how hard they are working to improve the lives of citizens, only they don't understand that life should be improved not by bans, but by innovations. I'm sure that this initiative will not lead to the reduction of gambling addiction among citizens, but it may encourage some segments of the population to seek other more dangerous entertainment.

If the people had been enjoying the governments and their relieve services to the people maybe there will be lesser concentration on the rate of growth in the way the people abuse things or get addicted when they know that they have an already made available means to finance themselves through government parliatives and other opportunities, they had better improve livew than ban on gambling or trying to regulate it while the people were struggling.

It's not that easy because it all depends on the citizens themselves whether they have the awareness and more advanced thinking to be able to live a normal life without gambling.
Even though the government provides large amounts of assistance, people's awareness about gambling cannot be changed, so it will only be the same where the assistance money is used as gambling capital.

The best solution is to provide jobs and also convenience in all social services so that automatically people can focus more on a better life and avoid all forms of risky actions such as gambling.

Since you are a newbie do not know Bitcointalk, and your post is misleading about how one country that will ban gambling ads can make an impact here in Bitcointalk, even casinos will not get harmed, your post is misleading, and you belittle the popularity of Bitcointalk, next time you create a topic get the fact right and do not make it misleading.
Australians are great gamblers and responsible too I'm sure they have a way to address this and they will not be alarmed.

By this are you suggestive that gambling will go down or relegated to the background? No I don't think that is going to happen. No matter the jobs that government provide for her youth, gambling will still be there. The days we are are the days of new age and exploration, the youth are exploring all aspects of socialization and acculturation of which gambling is one of the top that people get to know what happens in other jurisdictions. And the gaming industry is fast growing , different sports find there way to bookies. The gambling adventure is now more of pleasure and fun that employed people find time for it also.

Yes, gambling has its own place even though there may be a ban or rejection, and we know that now in some countries gambling has been legalized, and that will create opportunities for other countries to follow the steps taken by countries that first legalized gambling.
And I agree with you, that now the game is much more developed and the development is indeed very fast. Bookies will always find a way for their goals to reach many people who in the end they will take to the gambling table. And from the article quoted by the OP, actually it only refers to one country and previously there were also many countries that banned gambling.

Gambling is already part of everyone's culture. Even if there will be jobs and things as such but if a person has already been a gambler, you can't remove that on him unless he's the one that's gonna remove it for himself. And the better the life, the easier the gambler will take it place that he can gamble without having a problem because win or lose, there's still money that's gonna flow on him based on the life that he's got and the job that he's working on.

I believe for some reason, they are against online gambling, I've just read that online gambling or casinos are highly regulated in the country and now they are going to ban online gambling ads within the country, even though they allow casinos that operate under a license but since most gambling casinos that are available online, I'm not sure if they allow them or not and they only allow land-based casinos that are operating under a license.

And it's not true that gambling ads cannot be banned, they can ban them all over the internet and won't allow any service, website, or social networking site to display or run gambling ads within their country, we might think they can't do that but in reality, they can do that pretty easily.

If the country is serious about banning it. But oftentimes, they are all just publications for the public. In reality, these politicians will need a source of funds for the government to run.
China looks serious about it but you can see they are building casinos outside their mainland. The government itself invests in casino buildings everywhere in Asia.

Online can be easier to ban since they can control ISP to do that for the government but then there are just lots of ways to bypass restrictions. So basically it's still for the show.

If the state really wants to ban gambling, it could lose one of the sources of funds that can provide large tax contributions because the gambling industry is a big business.
And I'm not sure the politicians in the country would agree because they may control the casinos in the country and take the profits for them.
And if the state bans it, they will also lose out on an additional source of income even though it may not be legal.
Maybe the government doesn't need to ban gambling, especially in countries that have allowed gambling for a long time, but the state can prohibit underage people from gambling.
If it is an online casino, the government should cooperate with ISPs in monitoring every connection made by its citizens so that the government can ask citizens who play gambling to report it.
It can control gamblers and the government can also see their activity in gambling through their respective ISPs.

Bitcointalk is not Australia.
Quote from the link provided by OP.
Let's read it carefully on where they want to ban it.
They ain't the world government to do that kind of ban on different websites or forums. But if that forum is especially made for Australians then I guess they should abide by that law.
This movement will actually be not easy to implement. First, they also added the social media and online platforms. What? Tell Facebook and Twitter to stop the advertisements of gambling on their timeline. I don't think that is going to happen unless there is Facebook Australia and Twitter Australia only.
They should discuss this with the internet services to block such advertisements during the time given in the report.
The other recommendation can be done by their government but it will also be an intense fight for them.
But I do think this is going to be hard, I mean, some of them are not the gambling sites doing anymore, there are those who are looking for referrals that might flash the ads in some articles or blogs.

Big NO. I didn't come to read the link, but as what I have understood about these "annoying" gambling ads, they are actually referring to the ads that pops up mostly to any social media platforms. Yes, they are really annoying and minors can actually see it, most especially if a computer is not protected by an app for child safety.
But, bitcointalk forum is a totally different community than the mainstream social media platforms. All of us here are of legal age and there no children roaming around here and the signature ads are exclusively seen only within this community - so I don't think it is somehow connected with the banning of the gambling related ads.
The main focus of this is to ban all gambling related ads in all social media platforms. Also, the article says is only for Australia.

I think gambling ads should be banned in many places... I think there's a time and place for everything! What's happening in my country now is out of control I think. Gambling ads are literally everywhere at any time.

And how far it goes shows my experience from recently. I was listening to the radio in the car and an advertisement for a big casino started. Music, the sound of coins, some big wins, mention of winnings, bonuses... and so it lasts for 20-30 seconds. After that comes the part "children and under 18 should ignore what they heard"!!! How could someone ignore all of that just like that!? And that's radio, those commercials run all day on many radio stations.

I am not sure if it's true or not, this is from the daily newspaper (tabloid)... but things are getting pretty wild, and that is not good:

Probably we could all have rise in support of ban on ads if it would have been possible bit it's something decentralized that everyone has to take decision on to do with or without, we cannot judge from our own end to ban it because we think it sucks on our end due to our preference wgile others may actually finds it very interesting to see, they will alsl use the fact that it's one of the promotional efforts to make in advertisement.

The news says that it is related Australian only, how would it affect bitcoin casinos and bitcointalk ads in general? If you are talking about global ban, yes this question may come but since the news is only for Australian then it would not affect bitcoin casino. Interesting fact, I believe that most countries where gambling is banned, they are also banning gambling ads. But what is the reality? People in the countries are still finding gambling ads when they are surfing in the internet space. I guess no one can ban gambling ads globally all around the world.

By means of all includes the forum so Bitcointalk forum will be banned on Australia since we are promoting gambling but that doesn’t mean that Bitcointalk will not be available on other country. Country like Russia already banned Bitcointalk to be access by their citizen. I think this same local banned will happened to all Australian users here but the rest of the user that live on other country without restriction can still use the forum.

I don’t know how forum setup about country restrictions though but the Australian government will surely restrict access to the forum when this law was implemented.

Picking apart your statement, I'd like to dispense with a myth: the idea that regulation necessarily equals opposition. Yes, online gambling might be heavily regulated, and yes, the advertisements are facing a potential ban. But, to imply that this equates to an anti-gambling stance, well, I'd say that's somewhat of a leap. There's a good reason for this "red tape" – it's not just for the giggles. It's there to protect people. The restrictions are there to prevent exploitation and crime, two unfortunate side-effects of the gambling industry, whether online or land-based. The question then isn't if they're against online gambling, but rather, to what degree they prioritize public safety. As for banning ads, well, it's not a walk in the park. Sure, they could hypothetically ban them within the country, but let's not forget about VPNs and ad-blockers – the internet's very own pair of getaway cars. So, while a blanket ban may be possible in theory, in practice, it's a tad more complicated.

You have built misconceptions around this article and as a matter of fact there are no ads campaigns in bitcoin talk, in the past, there were ads for each first page of the forum and not long ago the forum administrator already placed a banned on that.
This ban on ads has been on the rise and this has also led to other social media like Facebook also banning some ads, so this all balls down to the same thing which is actions based on preferences this is different from forum signature which is entirely based on individual members. I

Well, gambling cannot be avoided, in essence, it has become an old culture that is attached to one's life, especially now that gambling is easier without having to go to a traditional casino.
I agree with you that with a better life, he has a stable job, he will not be able to forget about gambling, especially by having enough finances, it will be easier to deposit to start gambling, so with an established job, it is not enough to stop gambling unless own desire to stop forever.

For me, as long as we don't cross the limits of our financial capabilities, there is no problem. Put it in the category of fun, not to make a living in gambling.

We all are concerned about the forum which is not limited to on any particular country. bitcointalk has no problem if Australia or one or more countries stop their gambling ads. If Australian casinos want to keep their promotions on bitcointalk they can continue it. This matter is entirely up to them. In this regard bitcointalk does not directly manage any gambling site but we get authentic informations of many gambling sites which are available. No specific area or any particular country can bring any kind of negative impact on it.

It's already passed down to generation to generation, there's even new gambling games that are popular locally or internationally like casino. As the thread concerns about its advertisement of course it would be affected from the specific place only but for sure the bitcointalk forum wouldn't be affected from it. Gambling especially new sites would needed ads for them to be introduced to its new customer or player. Since in the social media it would be easier to use ads to spread the word about the new casinos.

Well that's Australia for you, maybe they are aware of the bad impact of gambling on their citizens, most especially the young ones, but honest they care that's why they are doing this, other countries are gaining a lot from casinos and they don't care what that is doing to their citizens of the country, still this won't stop anyone in that country from gambling, they already know about it and people can still influence other people to try their luck with gambling, if they really want to stop this, they should ban gambling in the country.

The government of the country can come up with a better idea of letting it's citizens know more about gambling responsibly, I read the news and it's saying that gambling is all about winning some and losing more, and that's accurate, I believe there are ways they can prepare their people to limit or gamble responsibly too.

The Bitcointalk forum is not related to anything and is independent so the ads still appear. But for other places, especially offline places, the government can prohibit or regulate it so that only adults can gamble. And what is difficult to regulate is the spread of gambling advertisements on social media because it is related to the social media service site. Hence, the government needs to take different approaches. But now there are a lot of gambling advertisements appearing on social media so people have to be more vigilant and maybe they can filter out the types of ads that will appear on their profile page.

No, I never hinted at gambling being relegated to the background.
But at least with a permanent job someone can be busy all day with work and go home to rest so that if they decide to play gambling it will only be one or two game sessions and not be too long in gambling.
In this era, the gaming industry is growing rapidly and many sporting events are taking place in every corner of the world, which allows more people to play or bet.
But if they already have the awareness of being normal people who need a job then gambling can slowly be limited and not all the time they can gamble.

You are right that gambling has become a culture and anyone who gambles will still be a gambler, but to continue gambling activities a person needs a certain amount of money and money can be obtained when they want to work or do business.
Imagine if a gambler didn't have a job, could they just bet all the time?
After all, if they work well, they can use gambling only as a means of entertaining themselves when they are off work.

Yes, it has been done in my country giving a warning that gambling must be responsible and gambling has a higher risk than winning it but fortunately advertisements about gambling have never been on television advertisements in my country, this method is actually the same also used by advertisements on television about strong warning about the dangers of smoking where it is always written in advertisements that,

"Smoking will kill you"

That's why even so gambling is banned in my country but not with cigarettes to prevent addicts at least the government always gives a warning even though in the end the warning will always be ignored by them, but the government has at least warned about the dangers of gambling and also smoking, so everything returns to choice live each other because there is no coercion and prohibition for them to do so. Gambling advertisements are strictly prohibited in my country but you can still find them on the internet.  :D

They probably find banning ads more easier and convenient than hosting seminars, doing events, and spreading messages about responsible gambling, etc. And, I believe they are just against online gambling which might also have something to do with cryptocurrency gambling since the whole world knows how popular cryptocurrency gambling platforms are becoming which might not be what the authorities want since it will make their citizens use cryptocurrencies.

We all know that a lot of countries are indirectly against cryptocurrencies and the blockchain movement, so they don't want cryptocurrencies to be used in their country by their citizen because they believe it provides them financial freedom and they will have private and secure storage of wealth.

On the one hand, we have "ease" and "convenience", essentially political inaction masquerading as action; on the other hand, we have the complexities of “educating” the masses about the perils of online gambling. Indeed, your argument has me flummoxed - both amused and puzzled, or as I call it, "super-baffled". Nevertheless, we can't ignore the crypto elephant in the room. Cryptocurrency gambling platforms do pose a quandary for authorities, given their rising popularity. Yet, this fear you suggest, that embracing crypto equals relinquishing financial control - is it substantiated? Or merely another case of the old guard fearing the new? After all, the promise of crypto is financial liberation for all, a kind of "financial democratization", if you will.

In the Philippines, the gambling industry generates the 3rd highest revenue for the budget of the government annually. Though there may be lots of negative impacts of gambling, there are also some positive impacts that greatly affect others.

At the end of the day, it is all about balancing- balancing the interests of the government to generate revenue for the betterment of society; and balancing the interests of the citizens to live a life free from all social norms, pressure, and addiction.

This is but a problem for the government to resolve in order to satisfy both ends of the stick. I do think that there is a way in order to minimize the destructive effects of gambling but it takes two to tango- both the citizens and the government must strictly comply with the said rules and requirements.

That's the point, sometimes the gambling industry creates dilemma considerations while the government wants to keep state revenue. I don't know if online gambling also contributes a lot to that.

However, when it comes to advertising methods, I think they are unlimited. While lately there have been a lot of hidden advertisements in various places (review and rating sites, livestreaming, short videos, etc) so that internet users will not be able to completely avoid the visibility of online casinos.

Crypto gambling and casinos was well hidden to someone like myself, in the past years the only valid gambling platform I know is freebitco and that's because of their free faucet, if not I wouldn't know that such a platform existed.

Coming on this forum and seeing some high rank members promoting casinos was what makes me to be curious about using crypto to gamble online, and I started my gambling journey through Roobet at first then I started trying others out too.

I think the level of casino advertisement online right now is still well hidden and not available everywhere online, you will have to develop gambling interest in mind before you go looking for one yourself, that's how we'll hidden gambling ads are online, it could be different based on location maybe, I don't know.

Casinos that are licensed and operate in certain jurisdictions after getting approval from the authorities generally pay their taxes, so I don't think that governments don't generate any revenue out of gambling platforms unless they are operating without their consent and aren't licensed which is why they get banned or sealed when they are caught operating without a license and not paying their taxes properly because no business can do that.

About advertisements, this is the first time I'm hearing about a country willing to completely ban and disallow gambling ads all around the country and on the internet as well, if they ban online gambling platforms as well then it can be understandable that maybe they are doing this because they don't want them to operate within the country at all.

It is difficult to ban gambling advertising at this time because gambling advertising has become a big tax contributor everywhere. And the government also doesn't want to lose that gambling revenue so the government might just limit the schedule of gambling advertisements so that children don't see gambling advertisements. And actually, it's the responsibility of each because it's just an advertisement that is the same as other advertisements. Well, maybe if all parties want to work together, it seems that it can still reduce the number of people who gamble and gambling problems such as gambling addiction can be reduced.

Gambling regulations will surely depend heavily on how gambling is considered by politicians, if gambling is just seen as an adult hobby, then you may be right and gambling ads will simply disappear from events that children and young people are expected to watch, however if gambling is considered to be bad for people regardless of their age then we may see a complete ban on gambling advertising, a scenario similar to what happened to tobacco.

Things that are meant to spread will spread no matter what someone does to prevent that from happening. Tobacco advertisements are banned all around the world, but does that reduce the number of smokers? It doesn't, in fact, they keep increasing over time because there is no need for any advertisement for cigarettes to get to people, everyone knows where they can get them and they do that regardless of the fact that they are harmful to them.

Similarly, no matter how much government works on banning gambling advertisements to reduce the number of gamblers and gambling addicts, it is a kind of a thing that will spread anyway, the only difference is that who knows which platform one would choose to start their gambling journey.

It's only in Australia that are willing to ban online casino advertisement. Not sure what you mean by bitcointalk casinos. Bitcointalk is a forum. Not a casino. The ANN thread you see is the announcement threads. It's not an advertisement thread. They announce their updated over there. The signatures are personal user space. I doubt it can be considered as a commercial advertisement. People can put what they want in their signature. They can put their referral links. And I doubt Australian government would care about this forum.

I don't understand idea of banning crypto gambling ads. I mean what is the point and purpose? Especially politician tagging them "annoying" doesn't make sense. I mean is it reason why? So should we ban anything we find annoying to see? Its so stupid that politicians can't understand how much money clubs make through sponsorships and ads coming from crypto casinos. They are actually making competition lot better. It seems to me that Australia is making a mistake.

Wearing a casino signature means you're promoting the casino, if you're an Australian citizen, actually you're broke your country laws. But do you think Australian government will care and catch you? nope, the highest payrate of signature campaign in this forum is $150, such amount is just a peanut for them and not worth to take a serious action. Bitcointalk is also an underrated forum, not really high like reddit, so it make the government won't care about you.

Honestly people need to wake up to adblockers a bit more, but it's a bit of a catch 22 situation if too many people start using them it will break advertiser profitability entirely. I've barely seen any adverts after using one for many years, except for places like this which have custom tailored slots that are not detected. Unless the advert is particularly irritating or annoying, or targeted towards under 21's, then it should be considered the same as any other advert - just ignore it and move on with your day.

Yes bitcoin forum is completely independent. It does not operate any gambling sites so no government can file any complaint against it. However, where gambling is illegal, the government will impose various restrictions. Everything related to gambling in those places will be viewed seriously. I think the government cannot create any such obligation regarding gambling advertisements on social media. However, if governments want to, they can certainly regulate gambling at the national or local level.

What if they make all of the activities regarding gambling banned even on underrated forums like here? I don't know if there are really Aussies here that probably wearing signatures for the sake of $150/week, I think that's too low for them, just saying. I think signatures are part of an advertisement if you're being paid for that, yeah, you really represent them and I agree with you.

Smoking and gambling appear to defy legislation and advertising limits. When these behaviours continue despite their risks, cognitive dissonance occurs.

Pessimism suggests we'll lose this battle. Thats defeatist. Instead of censoring ads, we should promote education and prevention.

I hate gambling advertising. However, some people need a little gambling for fun. However, these adverts may sway addicts. They deserve contempt, but lets also find ways to educate people.

Not sure if we can compare it though to smoking ads, I mean there are huge cigarette companies that lobbied government officials and so it's hard to stop those ads from popping.

But as for gambling, there are a lot of government around the world is that totally against it. So maybe we can't see those ads anymore or anywhere. As compare to smoking and cigarette ads that are everywhere and even minors have access to it.

exactly. this forum is an open place for discussion related to anything and is not bound by anything and is not established as a gambling place. so here there is freedom or anyone may carry out any activity that does not violate the forum rules even if using a signature or an ANN thread does not mean that this is a gambling place but a place that is provided for everyone who wants to discuss or seek information about anything that exists.
I think Australia will never care about this forum because it will not affect anything and this is just our place for discussion.

And because of that regulation by the government is needed to be able to regulate how advertisements from gambling are not excessive and affect minors. In my own country, here gambling platforms are not allowed to advertise in public spaces, but they are allowed to advertise in places such as clubs, private parties, etc., basically only places attended by adults with not too much intensity. With regulations like this, the government can prevent children from playing gambling, but at the same time still allow gambling platforms to advertise their games.

Gambling advertisements will continue to exist because of the interests of many parties, including politicians. Some politicians also own casinos so they want to see advertisements about their casino. So even though there is a ban on minors, gambling ads for adults can still run because the ads are specifically for adults only or people who don't apply filters.

That is the impact of an advertisement that can attract more people to join. Gambling ads are also like that, so maybe if the government reduces the broadcast time of gambling ads, it won't stop people from quitting or reducing their gambling time because they already know much about gambling. So it is very difficult to ban gambling advertisements, especially if people very well know gambling because they will return to gambling again.

Unless the government suppresses people on forums and bans gambling ads from appearing on these forums, but we know that the bitcoin forum is independent and not related or bound by anything, so many ads appear on this forum. The government can easily regulate gambling advertisements that appear locally or nationally because they are all under government regulations, so they have to obey the government's wishes.

Let's say if it is banned, will the institution that prohibits it dare to displace bigger finances like those issued by casinos to become promoters? of course not, they just bark without any solution. No wonder why the opposition always ends with criticism without a solution. They are not able to speak broadly and even move in an Australian country even though it doesn't make any impact. Then why did you link it to this forum?

This is not a matter of banned ads or not, because everyone has the right to make a choice. For example, when you see a legal advertisement on television regarding "if you buy a bottle of drink, you will get a raffle ticket to win a car raffle ticket". Are you interested?

A small example where promotion of any kind does in fact not force you to spend money if you are not interested. So what's the difference between gambling ads? the same as not forcing right?

That's part of solution maybe we can't see a huge effect on it since there are still people gambles but still its good initiative already since they can study how their regulation goes. If it happens the number of addiction has still rising up maybe another solution will be placed and maybe we. n see them issue a total ban if they see that their last regulation didn't seems effective and they need to level up their actions and put total end to each casino platform to lessen up the damage  brought up by wrong perception about the casino.

the main goal of signature displays is to promote projects and casinos, and this is a commercial advertisements. This is the same as you advertise the services of businesses around you and put banners in your house. Signature has the same function as banner ads that you see on websites such as Adsense. Because with this signature, forum users will see the casino or project and feel save to join. In the end, you get paid for using signature of the project/casino, that's the same as you promote it commercially. IMO/CMIIW

I doubt this because gambling has grown more than expected compare to smoking and cigarette. I don't know what the Australian authority foresees but restriction or banning of online gambling ads will not have much effect considering the awareness gambling has created around the world already. I disagree with you on the statement emboldened above. Gambling is more and easily accessible for minors than cigarettes. Smoking is more regulated than gambling hence, it's operation are being carried out on a low key.

By the way, the article in the OP post has less to do with Forum and it ads services. The above law will only be applicable to Australians and not the entire globe  ;D

I think before starting a discussion you should be able to grasp what you are talking about mate, so now that you mentioned Bitcointalk is bitcointalk from Australia? What you posted indicates Only Australian why will these effect bitcointalk OP? You can see that these exclusively effect only Australians and have nothing to do with bitcointalk or the globe.

Nevertheless, the Australians think that this may be done in order to eradicate or lessen the country's growing gambling addiction. If this is what they intended, I agree that it would be a wise choice also.

The Australians maybe think that this may be done since they they maybe that the number of gambling addictions in their nation is rising steadily. If this is what they meant, I agree that it would be a wise choice, by introducing these method of stopping gambling ads advertisement.

I don't know how the rules in Australia are regarding gambling in general. Maybe the regulation has leeway with funds that can enter the state treasury. The government earns revenue from casino operations in accordance with the legality that has been approved. Gambling cannot be prohibited even through government regulations, advertisements will still appear everywhere, especially on each cell phone. You've seen it right? then refer to government policy on whether gambling is allowed. In fact, the advertisements are still running around and the only people who can stop them are the individuals themselves.

The government earn a lot of money from gambling and for the government to put an end to it, it will be very hard unless the Senate decided to take it personal and create law that will be ban gambling ads. If the government have to ban gambling ads then there will be a need for them to ban gambling too so everything will end like that and casinos will not find a means to advertise there business to the public. That is the only way gambling ads can be ban when gambling activities are ban to so that people will not go and look for casinos to use and make bets. Could this be possible?

Government is the one who benefits all of it, they can earn taxes and use it in either funds or personal use . Ads are everywhere now and it can't be avoided , social media platforms are okay with it, they can earn a lot as well . It is a win-win scenario for both of casino owners and social media owners. You cannot control things that is being cannot be controlled, gambling is a business too.

Gambling ads and gambling is two different matter. Gambling ads problem is making vulnerable audience exposed on this kind of activity while they should be not playing. Gambling on the other hand can operate freely without any ads to don't harm them unless they seek personally.

Gambling exist for a long time while online gambling ads is just recently become trending. The issue being tackled are to protect vulnerable audience and not to decrease gambling exposure of the Australian citizen as whole.

Here is something very clear, the business model is good for many, both Google and the casinos themselves, it is known that if they invest a lot in public they will have good results and that is something that is noticeable in any Business , in I personally have not seen many casino ads as advertising , very few.

When I connect to the internet despite the fact that I frequent stake.com, bitcasino.io, among other casinos , it is because when I navigate in the Browser it is to get Notifications from the casino, but it is not like that, it is strange , maybe my security is high And it doesn't Allow ads like this either , but on YouTube if I frequent casino strategies for slots , roulette, among others, casino advertising doesn't bother me, I think the industry continues to grow.

Now, as for advertising, I don't know about you , but it seems to me that on YouTube they are very interested in advertising ads, whatever, you see a video and it comes out, then it becomes clear that things when advertising is money for Everyone , this is Something that Cannot be denied , in part People always look for a way to win.

They don't have to ban the ads, they just have to make the general public think twice in gambling before spending any money. This can be done by placing negative advertisements or emphasizing the negative effects of gambling. They did this in every cigarette packets and there's really no reason for them not to try this. It's way easier since the government won't have to lose profit at all as they also get taxes from this industry. Bans are sometimes not a great solution as you'll be foregoing revenue with it.

We have to review the gambling regulations and gambling advertising rules in Australia, you need to know that gambling is not prohibited in Australia but gambling must comply with the regulations that have regulated the gambling industry, even gambling advertisements are not prohibited but the regulation of gambling advertisements is too strict because the government expects activity gambling does not have a negative impact on the public so that gambling regulations are very limited and the government always supervises gambling activities.

I appreciate the regulation of each country because the government is trying to prevent gambling addiction which is difficult to stop and even difficult to recover if the perpetrators of gambling addiction have been affected psychologically, so gambling regulation is strict to prevent negative influences on the public and new generations will continue to lead the nation in the future.

Bitcointalk is not underrated anymore because Bitcoin and cryptos are now mainstream. Not all Aussies are rich and not all have a job. What if they are only a kid or a teen? $150 is already a nice amount for them. I think it's allowed if you're an Australian citizen and you are only promoting a casino online. Being online is not a country-specific.

I remember there's even Chinese people who migrate on other countries only to open a gambling business because gambling on their own country is illegal. As long as their business on other country is legal or has a permit, they won't experience any issues anymore. As long as ads are not evasive and will only pop out depending on our interest, then I see no problem with that.

Imposing more taxes is also a good idea, like the cigarrets, which is why they keep getting more expensive. It is a really good idea to have an advertisement about not gambling as it can lose you money or even your life, but again, this is difficult if there are no regulations on this because it shouldn't be only on the platform that needs to do it. Again, a casino is a business, and there's a ton of money involved in it, which is why it is better if a big person or organization implements it.

In some countries, smoking cigarettes is permitted, yet in others, it is considered abusive and strictly outlawed. Gambling does not send a pure message to the public; rather, it is used in a wicked manner to transmit a contrary positive viewpoint message to individuals, who get more inquisitive to place a wager in order to benefit from specific advantageous elements implemented in the gambling system. Ads for online gambling are another source that spreads gambling awareness to the public; imposing a tight prohibition on these online ads will benefit society by lowering threats, pending debts, and saving innumerable gamblers from liquidating their accounts.

Why should they be banned? Moreover, those who already have a license from a regulatory provider, they have the right to advertise where they are allowed to market them.
Except for platforms that don't have a license, advertising should be banned and even operations should be banned.

As long as the gambling platform is carrying out its obligations according to the regulations in force in the country they operate, of course it would be a stupid choice if the government banned the advertisement, instead of banning the advertisement I think it is better to limit the places where the advertisement is carried out, that is far better than banning it completely.

@Saheedu, i want you to understand that the bitcointalk is made up people from different parts of the world and from your statement i think the ban  is only applicable to those that are residents of Australia, and the prime minister of Australia doesn't have any legal right to ban the ANN thread from the bitcointalk, maybe the forum might only adjust their policy and restrict residents of that particular country from viewing the ANN thread if need be, which I don't think is likely to happen.
 The thing is different countries review their constitutions and set ban on things they see as threat or not right for their society on the other hands the government benefits from those gambling sites  through different means so I feel they'll later come to an agreement to make amends of those odd advertisements that promotes addictive gambling and also using illegal means to promote gambling but one thing I'm sure of is that a government can try to implement laws that would restrict illegal advertisements but it would be quite difficult to stop people from gambling because it's addictive, you can only encourage them to quit but can't stop them forcefully.

Governments can in fact regulate the ads which can be displayed even for legal businesses and most of them have a regulatory agency completely dedicated to this, as businesses like to take any advantage that they can and they can exaggerate out of proportion the benefits of their products, so it is not surprising that we are seeing some countries getting worried about gambling ads as the growth of online gambling during the previous years has been amazing.

The government does have the authority to limit this and they have a surveillance team that can block gambling if it violates the rules set by the government, that's easy if they work well.
the level of development of online gambling is very significant The increase, I also have a friend who has his own gambling platform, and he manages to earn money in one month up to $ 20 million every month from the losses of his players, of course that is a not reasonable number as a gambling provider without a license and the game only relies on advertisements from facebook adds and from streamers only, which triggers people to play on their platform.

It seems like they want to ban gambling ads, because recently even up to the present, the promotion of ads on special media platforms like Facebook is so rampant, I'm really surprised that Facebook just lets you while many young people and minors see those gambling ads.

It would be okay if it is promoted in the right place that no minors can see. Even if we say that this is just business, there should be something to consider for the sake of those who are not yet in the right age.

Despite the country specific debate, it does seem like limits for gambling advertisements are coming down the chain. Similar to how you can show alcohol consumption in television ads in the US or flat out banning of cigarette advertisements on TV, I could see in the future regulators wanting to curb any sort of gambling advertisements as well and not just is Aussieland.

This is is going to be very difficult to do, I mean it should be done but when those kids know more about how to use their smartphones than their parents then any measure that could be implemented to try to keep those gambling ads away from them has the potential of being circumvented by a great deal of them, and when we consider that now even video games have some gambling mechanics then this is even harder to do as you will need to regulate almost anything that touches the hands of minors.

Yes, that's what would happen if access to the forum is banned by the government of that country. Users will know how to handle the situation through the shared application, so there's no need to worry. The government aims to combat gambling advertisements on social media applications to protect minors from exposure, but limiting gambling itself is unlikely because it generates significant revenue that the country needs to manage its affairs.

Governments are right to have concerns about gambling advertising if the impact it has has has had on so many young generations. Of course I'd be happy to say it makes sense to do so if the ad is a direct ad on a sporting event, but maybe not about a forum ad.

After all, the government has blocked many online casinos so far so some of the gamblers will have limited access to them. Even if they wanted to bypass that restrictions then obviously they would have to use TOR or a VPN which in the end would very likely be the start of the problem of why some accounts and winnings were frozen.

It's pretty hard to ban something that makes a lot of money. In many countries gambling has been completely banned for years, but we cannot say that the citizens of these countries do not gamble. In my opinion, instead of banning something, we should offer people an alternative, and free of charge. In my opinion, even increasing the level of education among the poor can reduce the level of gambling addiction much more than banning gambling advertising.

Australia is the small country with good economy,So minor impact in the economy will reflect huge in the over all economy.It was the main reason behind the Australia to ban the gambling in their country.So some of the country ban the gambling is based on their opinion.Only in some country the gambling advertisement was include the unwanted material and it should ban.Many country based gambling only accept the gambling based on good factor and it also check the 18+ was included or excluded in the gambling ad.The minor gambling only needs of ads money to run their company website.But the gambling based on Europe and Developed countries was legit almost and doesn't promote the ads and spoil their name.

We can only filter the ads so they don't appear in the browser and only the ads we want will appear. But even so, we also have to be careful because ads like that can appear anywhere and even though we have filtered them, the ads will still appear.

And today's children are getting smarter in using their smartphones so that they can visit sites they should not be allowed to visit. But it is because of curiosity that keeps them visiting and if it is a casino site, they will try to play while looking around the contents of the casino. And later, they will try to deposit their money to experience real money gambling.

If you want to ban gambling ads, it should be from the provider or a site that allows ads to tighten the rules. But I doubt they will because it is related to the profit they get. So banning gambling advertisements still seems difficult to do so we will still see those gambling advertisements.

It will be difficult for the government to completely stop the advertising of Casinos or the operations of casinos. Sometimes the illegal stuff can be profitable like the poppy plantations of Afghanistan. The West was even disappointed when finally the Talibaan government finally stop the operation of the heroin source.

Facebook doesn't advertise casino ads AFAIK but it's the influencers sponsoring these influencers that are often the reason for the rise of casino users these days. The government these days however have more things to handle than dealing with those gambling ads. The troubled economy of each country is already weighing too much for the government but they may actually allow casinos to operate widely so they can generate more money.

A government, organized enough could effectively ban or put limitations on the advertising of casinos or gambling in general, but it is not only the fact such thing is not a priority. In many jurisdictions it would be troubling to legally set a precedent and ban advertisement for such a service.

Sure, it has been cases for the banning of cigarette ads, but it would not be the same for casinos nor other goods, like beer. Just because something can be harmful if abused, does not mean we are supposed to isolate it from our society.  Freedom is an important trait of western society, after all.

Gambling ads can't be stopped by anyone, unless the website goes down or no more customers. Based on my own findings, gambling advertisements on Facebook, Twitter and other social media no longer use official accounts to reach gamblers, instead they use buzzers to advertise on social media. This is a proof if we will not able to stop the ads.

Gambling may be illegal in many countries it depends on each country's rules but Bitcointalk is a decentralized forum so it does not depend on any country's decisions or rules.  So if this gambling promotion is banned in all countries, it is not logical that it will be banned in this forum as well. Although this forum is designed for Bitcoin discussions, all kinds of topics are discussed here. and everything crypto related is promoted. so gambling with crypto will not be banned separately in this case

If we have ads then there are ads blockers that we can use to safeguard ourselves from being hurt by the continue experience in seing those ads advertisement on our websites visited, we cannot actually stop every one of them but we can prevent them from what we do, we can also in other words consider them to be a means of making advertisement in which anyone of us may also fall under such category of needs be that we needed to make an advertisement on our products or services.

There's no way on avoiding that because whether you would be hovering on youtube or social media on which on the time that you would be watching out some gambling related things then due to because of algorithm then

it would really be throwing out those similar niche that you had searched out earlier on which it would really be just that typical that we would really be seeing these things on which its not really that shocking i would say.
Gambling ads should be banned? It would really vary because we know that each country does have their own jurisdiction when it comes to gambling laws and regulations. There might be places which gambling
is being banned but there are ones who had been allowed and now we are speaking about online gambling ads then it is something that couldnt be stopped. It could be seen on different or various mediums
and this is why if you do find yourself that impulsive on seeing these things then you must simply block it out or skip if ever you have seen one.

There's no other way that we could be able to stop because if we do push it out on legal means then it would really be that pretty useless.

In my opinion it's got something to do with Google fetching your search data and feeding you ads that fall in that particular data set. Some people call it the algorithm. YouTube does the same thing. As for the legality of gambling, it's less about morals and religious stuff and more about the fact that in most cases gambling is abused by the impoverished, so with that in mind gambling could be legalized everywhere and it would be good and great but at the same time the poor people will suffer even more since now, not only are they left penniless, they're also dealing with a gamblnig problem they just can't get rid of. So despite the fact that gambling houses are definitely helpful in boosting a country's economy, just take Hongkong for example, it's still not something that you can just legislate willy-nilly cause people will have a problem with it.

There is no central or main authority that can regulate gambling globally. Therefore, no such thing as gambling ads should be banned everywhere. Referring to the forum, gambling advertisements will continue to be freely advertised here, much especially since this is a crypto-forum.

Gambling-related advertisements can only be banned within a certain jurisdiction - e.g. by region, country, etc.

Generally, it's hard to imagine that gambling ads will be banned in most parts of the world. Gambling is even growing even during the worst situation in the world - the global pandemic. Gambling is already part of society e.g. by means of entertainment, competition, hobby, etc. and gambling-related ads will just continue to emerge anywhere.

Advertisements help spread gambling information speedier than anyone could have envisioned. Online gambling advertising cannot be excluded out because there are no specific elected authorities that would govern it, and most gambling companies make their income from the online adverts they provide to their users, most likely on websites. It can be bothersome at times because it constantly appears on your screen without your permission. These advertisements do not deceive anyone; rather, they convince one to gamble with their highlighted team of evidences and proofs from massive profits and referral bonuses.

I think gambling ads will never stop, unless gambling platforms decide to stop them. And if the gambling platforms close all their sites then the gambling ads will stop advertising those casinos. And currently all the gambling casinos that are on the BitcoinTalk forum are promoting signatures from which they can get new updates. However, if one of the casino platforms that are running on the signature promotion forum is shut down, I think it will never affect this forum. The casino platforms that are currently running signature campaigns are very trusted so their ads will continue to run and can definitely be considered paid ads.

Gambling advertisements will continue to run despite many restrictions everywhere because casino owners know where to advertise. But even if the casino stops its promotion, another casino will still replace the stopped casino by promoting it in other places. Casino owners can certainly find places where they can still advertise freely. And this forum provides a place for many casinos to advertise. Apart from this forum, the owners promote their casinos through social media to get more gamblers. So it should be the people who have to set what kind of ads to see and if they don't want to see gambling ads, they can block them from their social media or even their browser.

Well, even the call for the ban was a worldwide thing, i still think it will not affect bitcointalk in anyway, since bitcointalk is not a news outlet or a registered news media, bitcointalk is just a discussion forum and an independent one at that, So I don't think if such a ban happens worldwide, it should affect bitcointalk in anyway.

Think of it this way, Bitcoin for example is banned in some countries of the world today, but bitcoin as a discussion forum is still operational in those countries, if the government bans bitcoin, they should have also ban whatever forum where bitcoin is discussed, but they don't have such access to the forum.

Anyways, this is just my assumptions, i might be wrong.

that for sure because gambling always knows how to advertise on its own platform even though there are lots of ad blocking but there are many other ways to do that and from any application there are also gambling ads. actually this ad does not really interfere with someone activities its just that when we hold our cellphones and open one of the social media applications and the ad appears like a little embarrassed if other people know because gambling activity should be known privately but when other people find out it will be judged badly by others.
efforts to block ads will actually only be in vain because blocking one ad but another will appear again and for me the best way to get rid of this ad is to reset the phone or PC after that never open anything related to gambling because google always suggests what we are always looking for.

These ads will more or less affect us when using cellphones because the advertisements will appear often and our attention will be distracted and press on the advertisements. It has often happened where people who see an ad just skip it but over time, they become curious and eventually click on the ad and that's when they start gambling.

Maybe blocking ads can be a solution but it requires good control and self-discipline not to care about any ads that appear when we use ads. If you can do that, it means you already have good control and self-discipline.

I don't think blocking ads would impact someone's curiosity. It would only increase illegal ways to promote a casino. In my country advertisement of alcoholic beverages are banned on media. To counter it these companies came up with an alternative. They started promoting sparkling water with the brand name on media. Knowing gambling industry they would come up with alternative options to counter such a ban. Moreover this topic is about Australia and not the globe. Internet is available in Australia and the gambling industry would use this mode to advertise their casinos.

actually even laptop and computer mate , ads are coming from everywhere the internet nowadays , they are good in dealing with this and yes we are now immune to it.
but the question si , do the government or the authority willing todo this? because we knew how much money are flowing in this.

It depends on each person. If he really wants to avoid gambling, he is helping himself to try to ignore gambling ads by blocking ads. But if he still had one's curiosity about gambling, he would return to the casino and gamble again. And even if the block came from the service provider, he would gamble again if that person was still curious about gambling. So, in this case, the attitude of someone who wants to avoid gambling must be clear so that he can avoid gambling.

Ads come from everywhere and it depends on how we treat them. If we were okay with the ads, we wouldn't care.

Maybe for countries that prohibit gambling, the government will strictly prohibit it. But for countries where gambling is prohibited, there may be an agreement between the casino and the government and advertising service providers.

Illegal promotions had also happened in many countries and they keep doing this.
And to the point that gambling is not allowed online, then they'll offline. But for me, banning is meant only for those who have no permits or illegally operated but those who comply with the necessary permits, I don't think so. Because as long as it abides by the rules of advertising, that was still okay and so the advertising companies must be strict with that kind of promotion so whatever happens, they will take the blame.

Well, about Facebook not advertising casinos, I don't really think that works at all because I can clearly see local online casino apps getting promoted every day on Facebook and I don't understand what's their criteria for not allowing gambling ads on their platform because these ads are clearly related to gambling, maybe they have filters only for global platforms or the ones which are successful, or maybe they have certain keywords banned and these advertisers are not using them.

About governments banning gambling advertisements, I believe they can easily do it if they want, but as you said, most governments have other things to take care of and this is not that big of a concern for them, and if gambling is legal in a country, the government will also be getting taxes from them.

And this is an example that show us again why banning is seldom the answer, as it does not matter how smart politicians think themselves to be companies will always find a loophole they can use to take advantage of the situation and continue mostly unhindered by those regulations, what it needs to be done is to create a campaign that alerts people from the dangers of gambling in excess and part of the taxes they get from casinos is used to help to those that have developed an addiction, but besides that there is not much we can do about it.

There's no way on stopping it and we've seen with those bans every corners but it would really be definitely be depending on a certain country on which whether their government is really that seeing that gambling is already affecting their citizens that much or would really be focusing into the revenue and taxes that it do give on which it is really that something that they would really be prioritizing rather than with their citizens possible addiction kind of problem.So this would vary and if things turns out to be banned then gamblers would really be finding ways for them to alter out and make those engagement without being detected.

In todays era and year of technology on which it is really that easy to bypass if ever you would really be tending to play despite of being banned.Therefore, we cant really be able to stop
if ever someone do have that kind of addiction and if you do find yourself being that affected with these ads then its better to ignore or would be blocking out these things
so that you wont really be that making yourself get attached or getting involved with.

OP, the news you provided was only banned by parliament in Australia on online casino and gambling advertising. However, while this may be a temporary inconvenience in Australia, this ban is not likely to affect the entire world. Australia may have some positivity behind banning online gambling and casino ads, but countries that have legal permission for casinos and gambling from the government will not ban online ads.
However, BitcoinTalk's casino and gambling sides will not be adversely affected whether or not Australia bans online gambling and casinos. Those who are regularly active here mainly depend on the updated news of the whole world.

I don't know, but I think this regulation will only apply in Australia and probably won't have an impact on this Bitcointalk forum.
In the article you shared I saw that the main focus on the news was to remove the ads that appear on their sports broadcasts, and they said to remove or focus on the problem of gambling ads that often appear in public places that are often seen by Australians such as advertisements and sponsors in every sporting event in their country.
Meanwhile, advertisements for casinos or gambling places on this forum cannot be seen or are not displayed directly to the general public in that country.

It probably won't affect other countries now but there's a possibility that it might happen soon. Most advertisements that would be hit would surely those that are in the mainstream media and perhaps video content produced by content creators. Ad banners would still be a thing because that is really hard to combat.

Going back to video content creators, I see a lot of them still promoting the same gambling content despite restrictions on gambling itself. Take the Philippines for example, there are some regulations and orders against online casinos in general, but huge content creators continue to advertise these under their channels as if mocking the law. Well, the problem isn't the gambling casinos paying these folks to advertise, but the law not really taking its grip in its policies hence why these gambling content creators continue to advertise and get paid scot-free.

For us, maybe it will be fine and don't care about the advertisements contained on social media, but some people also feel that these advertisements are only annoying because they appear suddenly and make what is being done on social media paused because of the appearance of advertisements which exists.
What is really regrettable is that when there are minors who access the internet or open social media such as YouTube or Facebook or even Twitter, they can see existing gambling advertisements and we ourselves also understand that underage children have a high curiosity, so they are at risk to open or visit the casino contained in the advertisement.

That's not how it works because in my country gambling is clearly prohibited and has laws stated in the country's laws but in reality there are lots of streamers and also gambling advertisements are still rampant and free.
The government will never make such an agreement with gambling business actors because in a government system there are rules that are still under law and regulated by law, but indeed there are some unscrupulous people who have high positions in their government to protect or cover up any action regarding the gambling industry due to the large amount of security money they can pocket for those illegal licenses.

We gamble with pure intentions, and not the other way round, hoping to make extreme enormous profits, more like taking it as a multiple streams of incomes which will really have a negative effects on the gambler. Ads for online gambling should be restricted from addicted gamblers who will always possess the necessary tendency to gamble with every last opportunity they see, but it's impossible because the internet is accessible to everyone that have smart phones, computers or laptops. It's very important we know what we're doing in gambling, because it's basically not what we would imply to see.

I kind of have to agree with him, because the gambling advertisements on television is becoming more and more like a spam attempt. The casinos advertisements are being shown over and over again.... and it is annoying AF.  >:(

I think they should rather "limit" gambling related advertisements and not implement a blanket ban on them, because that will simply be unfair towards the gambling industry.

The spamming of gambling advertisements can have the opposite affect, if people see it too much, because that can irritate them.  ::)

Ads that appear suddenly make people curious, especially those who don't see ads like that often. They will click on the ads to see what will happen and if they end up visiting the casino because of the ads, they should shut down the site immediately. Otherwise, they will be even more curious about gambling and instead play gambling. This has already happened to minors because those who are active on social media must have seen gambling advertisements to make them visit casino sites.

That is clearly the case in your country, where gambling is prohibited but people still advertise gambling. I think this also happens in other countries that prohibit gambling, especially if they use the internet, where the internet can cross national borders and bypass regulations using a VPN.

That's why the government still has trouble blocking gambling developing in the country because people can use online gambling to gamble. And the government has not been able to find or track him down. In addition, some protect gambling or even make casinos illegal to get more money for them.

Australia isn't the first: starting last month, the Netherlands banned most online gambling ads. It's only allowed if the company can prove at least 95% of the target audience is 24 years or older.
The law doesn't mention if this only applies for advertising targeting the Netherlands, or all online advertising. Either way, just to be sure, I won't advertise gambling in my signature unless things are more clear. I guess they never considered the possibility of a Dutch person advertising online for an international audience.

And unsurprisingly the banning of gambling ads could bring a boost to the gambling industry, when governments went hard against tobacco companies and banned any kind of advertising related to it, tobacco companies thought they were going to encounter difficult times ahead, but surprisingly since they did not had to spend money on marketing they found out their profits increased, and a similar effect could happen in the gambling industry if such bans were implemented globally.

Well, in that you are absolutely right, because naturally a person when something is prohibited, I don't know, but the option always comes up that it has to be done, because it's like more exciting and because it gives more adrenaline to do it, now well what you give As an example of the tobacco companies, it is also an effect that occurs, in fact it is totally guaranteed that this will happen in this way, personally what I always do is highlight things, first, the gambling advertisements, casinos, Everything that you see that you see subliminally remains in people's minds, even if it's spam, it's something that's already marked there, because something very similar happened to me with a type of music, I didn't like it, but everywhere I was listening to it, and it seemed somewhat annoying to me, in fact, many people don't like that type of music, but I would find it on public transport, on the street when I was walking, when I sometimes went out to clubs Also, that was impressive, then the subconscious begins to record the lyrics, and one inadvertently begins to sing the song, even though it is not to our liking, but even so, one knows the song, that happened to me with a genre of music and currently I still like it, of course I prefer that music to the things that are currently out there, which I really don't consider music.

Something like that happens with the part of gambling, whenever I'm in any social network I get publicized about various things, but it's very easy, because I only see and that's it, few things I like, and according to that, well the advertising algorithm cannot determine what things I like, what things I don't like, that's how it is, there are people who are very obvious, what they like comes out, in my case I am very neutral, things that are in fashion that everyone The world likes it, well, I don't, I have some tastes and or other things where I am more selective, more than all sports, soccer and boxing, things like that, and well, people now are not so sporty.

There are some gambling apps that are targeting users from country using celebrities.
They know that people blindly follow celebs and so they are hiring more celebs to promote their gambling apps.
All of these celebs are endorsing these gambling apps by saying that we can make easy money in it within minutes.
We all know that is not true and in fact we lose our money and this is the reason why I hate these gambling ads.
They portray that people win money but the opposite happens instead.

You can list Philippines as one of the top country that always being a victim by this kind of scam trick. Our influencers here even the popular one are engaging on this kind of cheap deal to scam casino jsut to get a huge pay grade through their affiliates. There’s a lot of scam casino here that become popular due to influencers promoting it through their followers.

Casino knew the fact that influencers is the new gateway now to get easy customers since they knew that followers typically just following whatever the influencers trying to promote just to impress their idol.

I understand your concerns but as long as there are some people out there that win some money during their session then we cannot say they are really lying, which is why authorities cannot go against this type of advertising that does not lie directly but that lies by omission, because even if there are winning gamblers out there we must remember they are a minority and most of us which gamble for entertainment purposes lose money instead of earning it.

Authorities must have thought it was okay already to advertise casinos and gambling-related ads on TV after all, the majority of people today don't watch TV news anymore but see it online and on youtube channels. If I have to choose I think I will just accept casino advertising on TV but not on social media like facebook or X.

Society always has problems with what to present to the people but everything being available online will have a greater effect if social media allows casino ads because even kids will be exposed to gambling.

Or sometimes they are not even hiring celebrities. They are just editing the visuals of those people and letting AI do its job. Because those people like celebrities have the influence and many people would follow without even fact-checking. Sometimes, it's not always he content when it comes to advertisement. ambling companies just need exposure to the public.

But using Artificial intelligence in order to fake a celebrity endorsing a casino does not sound legit or even legal, to be honest. It is the kind thing celebrities could sue a company over.

Though, if the casino using their image is based overseas, it may be difficult to enforce law.

I personally do not think it is a big deal for famous people to endorse a casino, as long as it is clear their are being paid to advertise it and also the target public of just campaign is people over the legal age to gamble. Targeting teens and children is not acceptable whatsoever.

I think that you are correct because a gambling ads can not be ban in any country because even though it should be ban what is going to be the reason behind it ban, so I think that it's baseless and it doesn't have any reasonable thing that can make them to ban gambling ads in a country, gambling has being existing for centuries and which it's not a new thing in a country concerning gambling, so I have to make my research and follow my ways of understanding of gambling, government can not stop or ban gambling

Even I am hearing this for the first time. I haven't seen any ads which are fake and generated by AI.
I think it's illegal to use someone else's image for personal gains. They can create new avatars from generative AI though.
Besides that, these ads are shown on social media apps like Instagram which allows teens to use the app.
So indirectly, they are getting attracted to these gambling apps.

We have to filter out gambling advertisements so that we are not tempted to gamble. Or we can install an application that blocks certain advertisements so they don't appear when browsing the internet. Banning gambling advertising will depend on the service provider we use because casinos already pay places to advertise, so if a user complains, the service provider may consider it. But that is a difficult thing, especially if the gambling advertisement is in a country that allows gambling because the advertisement could become tax money for the country.

It will need a mass incident report for the internet providers to make a move. Right now, it is really hard to filter gambling advertisements because even on different social media platforms, you will see a lot of people promoting it. That's why what people need to do is to supervise the underage regarding gambling. For those who are at the right age, can think about whether they will gamble or not.

Obviously it's possible if every people supervise the minors to not gamble, when they see the minors accessing a casino, they can force to shutdown. However, do you think every people will want to spend their time and energy for someone else business? nope, most people will not do that because it's wasting their time and energy. Even we want to protect the minors, we have limited time, energy and money, so you can't save every minors.

While there are many attractive web ads, and casino ads are particularly appealing. Using tools and programs to block them on displays is feasible. Everyone has the freedom to adjust their Internet preferences. Understanding how marketers and platforms aid each other is also crucial.

Service companies must monitor their money, as you indicated. Users may improve surfing environments by voicing concerns and suggesting ad settings. With effective communication and understanding, you can balance customer satisfaction and business profit.

It is already a thing, actually.
There has been criminals who use Artificial intelligence to fake the voice of others, so they can get money out of the victim's family and friends.

Since now AI can also generate pictures and graphics, it will be just a matter of time before very well done deep fakes of celebrities are created by the staff of shady services, in order to mislead people into their service, thinking they are legit enough for a super star to endorse them.

That is one of the biggest fears when comes to advertisement, specially with services which barely filter their content, like Google, allowing barbage to pop out on peoples browsers.

It's not the task of internet providers to have them removed or moved. These advertisements are in the hands of the platforms where they're being advertised. Like in search engine websites, they're responsible for what ads they're showing to their users and partners.
And for the platforms where they're allowing it, it's time for them to have it filtered but you're right on this one that there's a must for many reports for them to start making a move but it's not really for ISPs because they're just there to have one job and that's to provide internet service and rest goes to the platforms where these ads are placed.

The gambling site will have the control over the advertisement.So if you are not accept with the advertisement,you can create the complain on that website.If they not response for it,then the gambler can contact the support of the website.The search engine also sometimes responsible for the advertisement,but it’s hard to make the search engine owner to remove advertisement from your side.Their may be many report from the users,but the website won’t remove it because for the revenue from it.The website will remove the advertising only to the people who report to them and keep others to get revenue.

Indeed, it is very difficult because advertisements use many methods to appear in front of the public. And it is the duty of each of us to be able to filter it, especially if the ad appears on our children's devices in the future. We have to be more alert and be able to supervise our children well so that they don't try to gamble. And this is about how we can give them understanding so they can stay away from gambling forever. Perhaps we also need to tell them about the impacts they can get if they gamble.

As long as we are willing to look for and try ways that allow us to filter advertisements on the internet, we can block them. Perhaps we can set preferences on each of our devices, especially on our children's devices, so they don't abuse it and end up gambling.

And this is an obligation we have to do for our children so they can use their devices well. In this way, we can rest assured that our children can use their devices well, and we can also filter out advertisements that will appear later.

Well that's right, some online casinos have now begun to use unusual ways, they have dared to appear in the public eye in several social media platforms, even though for example the government that does not legalize gambling has removed all their promotional content but still when the government removes one it will grow ten, they don't seem to want to lose to whatever comes to try to disrupt or regulate them. And indeed this is a big problem for us as a society and especially for parents who must be able to keep a close eye on what their children are doing, as you said, now there are a lot of online promotions and a lot of them are circulating on our devices such as smartphones, so this is very risky, especially for children who are still underage, it is very possible that they end up seeing and feeling curious, apart from that as we know that children who are still underage have a high level of curiosity about whatever comes to them. It's true that we as parents must really be able to filter all of that, not only for parents who have minors but for all people. In my opinion, the only way is that we must limit everything our children do, do not give access to anything that has the opportunity to know gambling, such as limiting the use of smartphones.


Yes, maybe blocking might be one of the effective things we can do to prevent our children from having the opportunity to know about gambling, but I don't think it will be completely successful because over time some promotions will definitely reappear, as we know the development of the social media world is very fast and maybe some casinos have various ways that are smarter than us. But yeah I wouldn't say it's wrong because it's one of the pretty good alternatives and we should still do it as a precaution. And besides social media, it would be nice if we also as parents must continue to pay attention to our children's socialization in the environment, because it can also be very influential. Keep them away from environments that are not good and can be detrimental, limit their time to play.
Regardless of anything, I agree with your advice, and it is true that this is an obligation that all parents must do in the midst of gambling which is now increasingly widespread, there is nothing wrong with us trying because this is also for the good of all of us, especially children whose future is still far away.

first of all, we have to consider how old our child is and if he is under 12 years old, it is quite easy because in certain countries, as long as the smartphone used is never used to search for gambling, I am sure that gambling advertisements will never appear in any media and another way, there are several social media that currently have features for minors, so as parents you can activate this feature so that advertisements sensitive to minors will be automatically blocked from these media.

but for children over 15 years old it will be a little more difficult because in this era of advanced technology, many young people know any way to access whatever they want, so the most appropriate effort is to always check and limit their children use of smartphone, even though it seems restrictive, but this is for the good because gambling advertisements are now mushrooming everywhere, even in countries where gambling is prohibited, advertisements will still appear on any social media.

Despite the current technological advancements that's allowed very young people to know some of the things that are not meant for their age, there are still very good measure that's been put in place for their parents and guardians to regulate their activities in the internet.
You can use Parental Control to regulate their activities and also limit the kind of contents they consume with their smart devices. A child that's less than 18 years isn't supposed to have access to any gambling site talk more of seeing ads on those websites.

I understand your angle on ISPs and their role - or lack thereof - in the ad ecosystem. They're like the highway builders, not responsible for the cars (or ads) that traverse them.

But hey, platforms have become lazy and greedy. They want those ad revenues, yet often turn a blind eye to the content. Search engines and other platforms should have a vetting process tighter than the security at a high-stakes poker event. It's not just about the revenue; it's about integrity and user experience. While I don't believe ISPs should police content, these platforms better step up their game or risk killing their user base. Profits today, gone tomorrow - a gamble they seem all too willing to make

Your opinion is indeed good, but parents cannot always control or supervise their children's activities in using gadgets even if they are limited. And in my opinion, it is best to be alert if there are signs of gambling advertisements and advise not to click or open them and parents should also tell them the signs first.
Apart from that, always check the gadget carefully after not using it and still instruct it not to click or open gambling advertisements and remain under supervision if there are no important things such as work or other important matters.

Even I have heard about fraudsters using AI to generate known voices of their relatives and using it to scam people.
But that doesn't involve any images or videos because it is relatively easier to identify if the image or video looks fake or not.

Well, in my opinion those deepfakes are getting better with each year that comes and goes. For example, some days ago I saw a deepfake of Trump, i knew it was a deepfake because it was posted on Twitter by an account which shares deepfakes.

At this pace, we won't have to wait much time before scammers manage to fake pictures of us, in order to easily scam people.
It is one of the reasons I have tried to say family and friends about those new methods so they can be aware and set security questions with their relatives, so even some scumbag tried to fake their voice, they would need to know a specific piece of information anyways.

The ignorance of assuming technology is on our side when it comes to gambling and its influences is laughable. You're talking about age-restrictions on certain platforms, but let's be real here. Any techie kid these days knows five different ways around any parental lock. It's the family's duty now to teach discipline and the dangers of gambling. You mention gambling ads "mushrooming" everywhere. Ironic, given mushrooms can either be a tasty treat or deadly. This isn't about country restrictions; it's about fostering an environment where your child knows better, regardless of the ads they see.  ::) ::)

Gambling advertising, this situation is being blatantly advertised on social networks, causing discomfort to users. Whenever I open YouTube for my children to watch cartoons, gambling ads appear, making me very uncomfortable. My child is young, but almost every day, he goes online and sees these ads. I'm afraid it will affect children's cognition.
Rampant advertising on social networks causes many consequences as the number of young children participating increases. I don't know how to turn off these ads. The government needs to intervene and resolve this situation as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will expand more and more.

That's what must happen that these platforms should step up what they're up to. They seem to be not worrying at all because they're going to profit from it. I don't really think that there will be some responsibility from the ISP to do what the platforms should do that are placing their ads on their websites.

Well, it is in general about the popping up of advertisements. But yes that if there's a little responsibility that the gambling sites has, they are the ones that should conrtol it and whether you are up for it or not, there is nothing you can do as they're the ones who manages to place it and much more if they're partnered with ads company or even with google.

That is right. As much as we want to protect our children from the harm that they can get from gambling, then as parents it is our responsibility to manage what’s been appearing in their smart phones so they won’t be attracted or influence by the gambling ads. Gambling is only suitable for adults since they have the means to control their gambling habit if ever. For minors, at least they should not be exposed on it so they won’t develop the urge to gamble at a very early age.

That is why online casinos can always survive when there is a rejection or removal of advertisements made by the casino. They can still create other advertisements and distribute them to many sites easily. And this makes parents pay more attention to their children, especially children who are starting to reach adolescence because adolescence is a time when they try to want to know many things. As parents, we cannot fully supervise them daily because we are also busy with work. But at least we can still pay attention to them, and this attention is not only about giving them what they want but also paying attention to their situation and talking to them so that we understand their world. If necessary, we can also try to get to know his friends so that we can contact them if necessary. Limiting their access to the internet could be one solution, but we also have to be able to explain to them why we are doing it so that they don't misunderstand our intentions.

Yes, I also think about the possibility that could happen because with the progress of the internet, as it is now, they can find casinos easily, let alone deal with blocking problems, because I see many teenagers who can unblock certain sites they are not allowed to visit. And that makes many teenagers go down the wrong path, putting them in difficulties they and their parents have never faced.

Moreover, the development of social media has also advanced so that it can be a place for teenagers to learn many things. Parents should always be concerned about providing supervision and attention to their children so they don't go wrong. And I think if parents can approach their children well, they will understand and try not to take the wrong path because their parents will always guide them.

The advertisements won't appear on their smartphones, but the ads can appear on their friend's smartphones when hanging out. It will make them want to know more about the site, and sooner or later, they will try gambling. The curiosity of today's teenagers is greater than that of teenagers in previous years, so parents need to be closer to their children so they can provide understanding.

well, if the situation has changed, unlike what I said before, there are other ways, after blocking gambling advertisements or any effort to prevent advertisements from entering your smartphone, there are other ways to prevent young people from gambling just because of their high curiosity when seeing gambling advertisements friend smartphone.
so its like this, if the efforts I mentioned can not prevent all of this, parents must have an approach to their children to provide knowledge regarding any dangers related to accessing gambling so that slowly as parents they will provide knowledge that indoctrinates their children thinking to be afraid of accessing gambling and will not carry out any gambling activity after being given knowledge of the dangers of being addicted to gambling. so this method will be more appropriate for those of us who have concerns as parents about preventing our children from gambling.

It's better given that gambling can be influence from other people aside from advertisement from the internet. The root problem is gambling so yes, I think it's better to tell the child or teens about the negative effect of gambling just like how we tell them about not using drugs or some addictive substance like cigarettes. Advertisement nowadays is harder to control, imagine those free to use application on our mobile phone has an ads to access other features of it. So no matter how much we block advertisement, the maximum effect we can only do is to minimize it and not removing it entirely on other people phone.

It's been a few months already since the news and so far nothing changed here on the forum. The ban seems to be focused on Australia and wasn't picked up by other countries. In my country I haven't heard about any political movement that wants to ban gambling advertising. When I look on all the ads we have over here it would be crazy to not allow gambling ads, but then all the other things. The most common ads I notice are either for alcohol or cigarettes. The huge hype about e-cigarettes and vapes can be seen on billboards on every big corner. It would be unfair to ban on specific industry and allow everything else. The question is also how such a law could be enforced if ads are only displayed online. Banning something in Australia should have no real impact for the majority of users here on the forum.

The Australian government is concerned about her underage citizens, who venture into gambling. I've read, years ago, about an Australian kid who committed suicide because he wasn't able to pay up loans he took for gambling purpose; he got addicted. Similar to other citizens, both adults, commit suicide after taking multiple loans. So, the government, from the article OP shared, can enforce the no gambling ads on stadiums during football matches. It could help, but no accurate measures can solve such problem. The high rate of gambling ads outside the internet is too high, gambling houses exist almost in every street, according to locations. Hence, parental control for kids with phones, reduces or won't help. Restricting kids through parental control, is like stopping the flow of water with a mud. Adolescents are seen hovering the streets like a helicopter and they're exposed to these gambling houses, they see it in real life, not online. They see close relatives, who participate in gambling activities. By stopping online gambling ads and leaving behind offline gambling houses or casinos to operate, the Australian government won't achieve her goals. The best alternative, is by encouraging parents to improve moral instructions on their underage children, not to venture into gambling. If they see casinos houses as kids, they can develop interest as adults. I read some responses about parental control, it can work for some kids, not all kids can be restricted from gambling through parental control.

Yes, more on alcohol and cigarettes as well here in my country. Nevertheless, there are also ads about gambling as well, with even faces of well known athletes are part of the ads and promotion.

So I guess our country is not to hard core about gambling per se, although sometimes there are police raids about certain area wherein they are doing illegal gambling, but it's rare and we even have like 3 big casinos operated by big casino companies. Yes, there are news about Australia lately about their casino rules and regulations, but then again, it's going to be a uphill battle for the government to totally stop gambling, in my opinion.

There is always movements against gambling and gambling ads in every countries, usually supported by leftist parties or parties which raise a religious flag. The point is that these movements are really weak, depending the country, so we don't hear about them, besides the fact they don't have support from a considerable portion of the population or the national media. When this is the case, gambling is safe to continue existing and being promoted, what attracts a large interest from international businessmen interested in exploring this niche of the market.

Yes, it is very possible, and indeed I think environmental factors can also greatly influence anyone to enter gambling, not just some advertisements from the internet.  True, I agree with you that advertisements on several social media are now more and more numerous and difficult to control, especially for us as a society that does not have any authority to eradicate the promotion of gambling, for that problem we just leave it to the government, and here all we can do is minimize or reduce all possibilities that can adversely affect us, especially our children.

As we know the development of social media is now very fast and so are the gambling promotions that we find more and more, so with that I will agree with your suggestion, we must be able to minimize whatever we don't want, I think a good way is better to limit cellphone access for our children and also limit them in their social environment, don't let your guard down at all, gambling is very dangerous for the future, especially children.

Depending on the country, it could already very well be banned. But when it comes to addictive substances or in this case, addictive behaviors, as long as they are adults, I see no problem in advertising to them. As far as children go, the internet is a completely unregulated room of full freedom, so they will find worse things on the internet than gambling advertisements. There is no way to stop them except if the parents themselves implement a very strict control over the child. Which, in itself could be debated on whether or not that is a good way for a child to grow and learn.

But lets assume that everyone here is an adult. Why should we demand censorship? Are we not responsible for ourselves? Do we not have the freedom to do as we like? Do we need big brother to watch over us, and tell us what we are allowed and what we are not, as if we were living in China?

Australia has become the world's biggest woke-shithole lately. First they banned smoking and now they are banning gambling ads. What next, banning gambling completely? How about banning alcohol too while you are at it? What about weed? Oh right, weed will get a pass because most woketurds smoke it I guess. No guns too. If you are living in this old brit prison, you are at the mercy of this stupidly woke government. Leave this shithole while you still can. It is not going to get better before it gets worse there.

Parents' approach to their children must be gradual and should not be seen as a strict rule for their children because they will rebel. Parents need to understand their children's thoughts by inviting them to discuss many things. Then, parents can provide useful suggestions or input for their children. And regarding the advertisements on their smartphones, if parents can understand their children, there will be no curiosity because their children will think about the dangers of gambling if they get involved. Parents must be able to think creatively and outside the box if they want to provide understanding to their children because nowadays, teenagers are much more developed than they were a few years ago. They are smarter in many things, so if parents are less creative, parents may find it difficult to handle their children.

I agree that individual responsibility is important, but its important to grasp the details. Gambling, even among adults, is not voluntary. Dopamine, a reward neurotransmitter, is released by gambling. Over time, an imbalance might cause addictive behaviours, making people sensitive to ads.

The internet is a 'unregulated space of freedom' to some extent. Platforms moderate content, though. Thus, the theory seems plausible.

Society setting ethical standards is the issue, not "big brother" surveillance. Comparing to China is striking. Still, public health and ethical obligations over individual freedoms that could harm society are the main focus.

Australian laws should have no effect on a global forum. I don't see how they can enforce this in their country without resorting to widespread censorship of the internet. Gambling ads are everywhere. Maybe they will just ban gambling entirely, that way even if a user clicks on an ad or visits a casino site after watching a video ad the domain will be blocked by their ISP.

I’m sure they would just follow Canada’s lead and start censoring websites from their citizens. It’s pretty crazy that this is happening to be honest but at least people still have the option to use VPNs for now. I’m sure someday in the not too distant future these countries will start making VPN use illegal.

Few people can access casinos then. It is time these casinos also will find ways to start having a version of their site for each country like Stake.ca Yep Stake has it ready I guess they are seeing it happening already.  It must be a premium domain to buy. 

Australia was the first and then Canada. It's somewhat easier to track gamblers and crypto users if each country will be doing it this way. Stake seems to be ready to comply.

Such a ban can only affect the casinos that are operating within that particular region where the ban is being imposed because they would probably be getting most of the traffic from that country or region and if they are not allowed to advertise, that will mean less gamblers and eventually less revenue. In such a case, a casino will probably need to change its jurisdiction and move to a different place if they don't want its business to just get ruined by this.

If the ban is imposed in Australia, and there are casinos that has Australia as their basic jurisdiction because they have their license from there and most of the players are from that region, they will have a hard time since the hub for their promotions will be closed and they will need to find another source.

Actually ban of smoking is not the easy one,Many people was consume the smoking in their home.Did the government had not keep the smoking sensor in the entire country,So we can’t say it’s possible to ban of smoking.Now they start to touch the gambling by just ban of the usage of credit cards to the gambling site.It was in the news,they are not ban the gambling.They just ban the credit card usage to the gambling.Because the credit card will help the user to play the game unlimited and at the end may leads to more credits to their citizen.

This is wrong understanding. When the production and importing of cigars were stopped, automatically smoking can be stopped throughout the country. Maybe there'll be illegal production units and those too can be found if the cops and the investigation networks work on it. Same as that ban of gambling ads can be done. Governments openly state about the ban, but they provide known loopholes to keep things functioning which is the wrong governance.

You should prepare yourself because most likely that is coming, social media websites already censor a great deal of content to keep their sites clean of opinions they do not like, however as much as those websites are popular among the population, they are not the whole internet, there are forums and blogs in which people are still able to express themselves freely, with this forum being a clear example of this, and governments will try to regulate the whole internet with similar laws all over the world.