Gambling advertising monitored closely

[FlightyPouch]

Why not women? I don't understand why it would be unlawful or unethical to target women too?
Ladies aren't children, they're free to gamble if they want to, in most of countries of the world.

For honest, he is right. The same as most gamers even now are men, overwhelming amount of gamblers are men. So there is  some sense in his words. But in gambling, many commercial are "gender neutral" and it trying to exploit success terms, like "you will be rich" and so on, to hit more audience (compared to ad where is shown nude girls)

Yes, and maybe that's why casinos want to reach more ladies now and targeting more specifically them. I just don't understand why they couldn't do that, why it wouldn't be ok to target them?

I think its just robelneo's point of view. as for me I don't see anything wrong gambling ads targeting women. but the problem with this ad and why other are being too negative about it is that the ad seems to be too cute that it could only not attract women of legal age but children too especially if the ad is being shown on social media like Facebook(according to plvbob0070) where a lot of young children and teenager girls are active.

You got the point. Yes, the women and children can get attracted to visiting the gambling games website because of the ads. They think that the ads are funny, and they curious to know what it is, so they click on the image or link and redirect to the gambling site. After they at on the site, they curious about how to play the game, and once they know, they will try to play it. Perhaps they will not play too long, but they will be back on the other day because the game is very attractive, making them curious to play more. Social media needs to have control, but it seems the adult people don't give much concern about that, so they don't pay attention. We need to always care for our children because we don't want to see our children playing gambling at their ages.

If that is the case I don't know how did they got the money to use in that gambling site and as far as I know, the OP said that it is just inviting to some children and not actually, I hope, played by them. Even though we control and supervise our children, it will be really hard if we can't filter these kinds of things to their Social media news feeds.

[Quidat]

Why not women? I don't understand why it would be unlawful or unethical to target women too?
Ladies aren't children, they're free to gamble if they want to, in most of countries of the world.

For honest, he is right. The same as most gamers even now are men, overwhelming amount of gamblers are men. So there is  some sense in his words. But in gambling, many commercial are "gender neutral" and it trying to exploit success terms, like "you will be rich" and so on, to hit more audience (compared to ad where is shown nude girls)

Yes, and maybe that's why casinos want to reach more ladies now and targeting more specifically them. I just don't understand why they couldn't do that, why it wouldn't be ok to target them?

I think its just robelneo's point of view. as for me I don't see anything wrong gambling ads targeting women. but the problem with this ad and why other are being too negative about it is that the ad seems to be too cute that it could only not attract women of legal age but children too especially if the ad is being shown on social media like Facebook(according to plvbob0070) where a lot of young children and teenager girls are active.

You got the point. Yes, the women and children can get attracted to visiting the gambling games website because of the ads. They think that the ads are funny, and they curious to know what it is, so they click on the image or link and redirect to the gambling site. After they at on the site, they curious about how to play the game, and once they know, they will try to play it. Perhaps they will not play too long, but they will be back on the other day because the game is very attractive, making them curious to play more. Social media needs to have control, but it seems the adult people don't give much concern about that, so they don't pay attention. We need to always care for our children because we don't want to see our children playing gambling at their ages.

It will vary on person to person kind of behavior and since we do have our own will and experiences then its up to us on how we should gonna take action
on things that we do able to encounter.Its just impossible for you to go back to gamble if you do know that it is already involving money and if you are a
type of person who doesnt like to get involved then you would be automatically reject these things and wont turn your back.For some people where curiosity does
really come out which would result into these kind of mistakes.For advertisment matters then as a parent or guardian, it is just right for us to protect those who
are really still into their young minds.

[CarnagexD]

Gambling is already viewed as a sinful venture, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be regulated because of course, it is an industry that appeals, to most po the masses. So making sure that it abides upon certain preset rules that will encourage responsible gambling and protect people from harm or defamation. Advertisements like these should be stopped and have the company it advertsises face consequences.

I've seen the screenshots in the discussion and the news about these ads that clearly look like they're meant for children, and I think it should be forbidden. Gambling websites should look serious and too complicated for kids to understand, not like a nice little game with toys... It's very irresponsible and cruel to target young people because they're not aware of the risks and responsibility, and they are even more likely to develop addiction if I remember correctly (I read about it once).
But gambling advertising in actually bad in many ways. One of them are the infamous Google ads of phishing websites that copy the designs of famous casinos. So the area needs more regulations and oversight.

exactly. Agencies and entities that are there to support and protect people from harm or defamation in the world of gambling should be more vigilant and responsible in the advertisements they put out. You can't just put an add like that with the sole purpose of gaining publicity in mind. That's just downright wrong and messed up.

[maydna]

If that is the case I don't know how did they got the money to use in that gambling site and as far as I know, the OP said that it is just inviting to some children and not actually, I hope, played by them. Even though we control and supervise our children, it will be really hard if we can't filter these kinds of things to their Social media news feeds.

We never know how they get the money or use the money from what we gave them. Some parents give the money to them weekly or monthly, and we don't know what they will use with that money. My friend, who has two children that grown-up tells me to control and supervises their children now become hard compare to his childhood.

It will vary on person to person kind of behavior and since we do have our own will and experiences then its up to us on how we should gonna take action
on things that we do able to encounter.Its just impossible for you to go back to gamble if you do know that it is already involving money and if you are a
type of person who doesnt like to get involved then you would be automatically reject these things and wont turn your back.For some people where curiosity does really come out which would result into these kind of mistakes.For advertisment matters then as a parent or guardian, it is just right for us to protect those who are really still into their young minds.

Many children who find pleasure in one thing will try to do the same repeatedly, and that will happen too with the adult people. Sometimes people will come back to gambling because they can get that pleasure, which makes them play gambling many times. They will hard to reject it because of the fun factor they can get from gambling, and they will not think that is a mistake to stay in gambling games for some time. So in this matter, you need to be aware and concerned about yourself, and try to control yourself in any situations in the gambling games. Do not let the pleasure drag you deeper to the gambling games because that will be dangerous for you, and always guard your children.

[marcbitcoins]

Gambling is for supposedly responsible adults not children. Advertising any product is designed to increase sales or usage. A small minority of people lack the self-discipline to control what they spend on gambling, or know when to quit. Children fall into that category - therefore - reducing or banning adverts for gambling reduces the risk of people falling into debt.

[Fredomago]

Gambling is for supposedly responsible adults not children. Advertising any product is designed to increase sales or usage. A small minority of people lack the self-discipline to control what they spend on gambling, or know when to quit. Children fall into that category - therefore - reducing or banning adverts for gambling reduces the risk of people falling into debt.

It should  responsibly taken by those who own this business, knowing the influence that those advertising
materials to minors is really needed to closely monitor.

We don't need to argue about the possibilities of addiction as starting in an early age will bring you too much engagements, want  of getting more in-depth involve are surely to expect, it's very logical to strict and tighten every rules that may damage minors belief to this types of activities.

[plr]

I stumbled across an article where the gambling advertising did have some stuffed animals in their advertisements. Now the complaint was made and it was determined that usage of advertisement like this actually causes people under 18 to get engaged with such things which can cause further problems.

This gambling site should be responsible enough to know what materials to use to promote their gambling site, it's not right to use something that will attract children or kids because in the first place they will no tallow kids to play in their gambling sites, they should know better because they also have kids of their own.

[FlightyPouch]

If that is the case I don't know how did they got the money to use in that gambling site and as far as I know, the OP said that it is just inviting to some children and not actually, I hope, played by them. Even though we control and supervise our children, it will be really hard if we can't filter these kinds of things to their Social media news feeds.

We never know how they get the money or use the money from what we gave them. Some parents give the money to them weekly or monthly, and we don't know what they will use with that money. My friend, who has two children that grown-up tells me to control and supervises their children now become hard compare to his childhood.

I do understand the fact that there are a lot of parents that have credit or ATM cards that if sometimes left unattended might be used by their children. Even though they've seen these advertisements, I don't' think they can do anything about it since they can't bet on it. I know it is still dangerous but I guess it would not be the same situation with every children.

[maydna]

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I do understand the fact that there are a lot of parents that have credit or ATM cards that if sometimes left unattended might be used by their children. Even though they've seen these advertisements, I don't' think they can do anything about it since they can't bet on it. I know it is still dangerous but I guess it would not be the same situation with every children.

We can hope that the children will not do too far to click the advertisement to prevent them from unknown advertisements. As long as the parents can communicate with their children and care for their children, I think the children will not try to do something strange.

When our children grow up, it will need double attention to watch and take care of them, especially now they live in the digital world, which is different from what we get in the past. Their curiosity becomes bigger to something that they don't know, so we need to explain what is good and not good.

[FlightyPouch]

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I do understand the fact that there are a lot of parents that have credit or ATM cards that if sometimes left unattended might be used by their children. Even though they've seen these advertisements, I don't' think they can do anything about it since they can't bet on it. I know it is still dangerous but I guess it would not be the same situation with every children.

We can hope that the children will not do too far to click the advertisement to prevent them from unknown advertisements. As long as the parents can communicate with their children and care for their children, I think the children will not try to do something strange.

When our children grow up, it will need double attention to watch and take care of them, especially now they live in the digital world, which is different from what we get in the past. Their curiosity becomes bigger to something that they don't know, so we need to explain what is good and not good.

I think it will be better if we will be explaining these things to them at a certain age. I know it would be early but they might be more curious and rebel at that because we are getting strict into things. I think we should explain those things so they will not be bothered by that in the future while they grew up. The more they are curious since they don't know what those are, the more they will want to experience those things.

[dunfida]

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I do understand the fact that there are a lot of parents that have credit or ATM cards that if sometimes left unattended might be used by their children. Even though they've seen these advertisements, I don't' think they can do anything about it since they can't bet on it. I know it is still dangerous but I guess it would not be the same situation with every children.

We can hope that the children will not do too far to click the advertisement to prevent them from unknown advertisements. As long as the parents can communicate with their children and care for their children, I think the children will not try to do something strange.

When our children grow up, it will need double attention to watch and take care of them, especially now they live in the digital world, which is different from what we get in the past. Their curiosity becomes bigger to something that they don't know, so we need to explain what is good and not good.

I think it will be better if we will be explaining these things to them at a certain age. I know it would be early but they might be more curious and rebel at that because we are getting strict into things. I think we should explain those things so they will not be bothered by that in the future while they grew up. The more they are curious since they don't know what those are, the more they will want to experience those things.

Proper guidance and parenthood would be the solution into this one because if you do able  to  raise up your child well where they do aware on things that do happen or sharing
off on your experience  and knowledge then that would really be a good tool for them to avoid those things while they do grow.It might not be totally getting rid of with gambling
but at least they do know the basics and knowing that it can really help  them out when it comes to finances.For advertisements like this  then its really totally irresponsible on
letting those ads to be aired on national television and thats why it do really possibly create a batch of new gamblers in the future once do curiosity sparks out.

[FlightyPouch]

I think it will be better if we will be explaining these things to them at a certain age. I know it would be early but they might be more curious and rebel at that because we are getting strict into things. I think we should explain those things so they will not be bothered by that in the future while they grew up. The more they are curious since they don't know what those are, the more they will want to experience those things.

Proper guidance and parenthood would be the solution into this one because if you do able  to  raise up your child well where they do aware on things that do happen or sharing off on your experience  and knowledge then that would really be a good tool for them to avoid those things while they do grow.It might not be totally getting rid of with gambling but at least they do know the basics and knowing that it can really help  them out when it comes to finances.For advertisements like this  then its really totally irresponsible on letting those ads to be aired on national television and thats why it do really possibly create a batch of new gamblers in the future once do curiosity sparks out.

Well, we are talking about an advertisement on Facebook that seems to be very attractive to children, not the television. In terms of advertisements on television, here in our country, it is so strict and I don't think this will even one advertisement about gambling would get through. It is more dangerous on the internet as you will never know what will your children click in there.

[Wexnident]

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Well, we are talking about an advertisement on Facebook that seems to be very attractive to children, not the television. In terms of advertisements on television, here in our country, it is so strict and I don't think this will even one advertisement about gambling would get through. It is more dangerous on the internet as you will never know what will your children click in there.

It's simply because children are exposed to technology at an early age. It isn't a bad thing overall, since some of them can discover a few of their talents early on, but it does show that parents should entertain AND educate them, not stop them. It's simply the case of the more something is out of reach, the more one wants to actually get it, and that's especially the case for children since the concept of "punishments" is really vague to them at an early point, and hell, most of the time they'd forget about it (unless you reach the level of physical abuse ofc, most would get traumatized by that).

[uneng]

I stumbled across an article where the gambling advertising did have some stuffed animals in their advertisements. Now the complaint was made and it was determined that usage of advertisement like this actually causes people under 18 to get engaged with such things which can cause further problems.

This gambling site should be responsible enough to know what materials to use to promote their gambling site, it's not right to use something that will attract children or kids because in the first place they will no tallow kids to play in their gambling sites, they should know better because they also have kids of their own.

Anything innapropriate can attract children attention. So should we ban all kinds of advertisement too? Can you imagine how many parents and consequently their kids will be prejudiced if a ban like this become more common than already is in this hypocritical world? Behind every industry there are lots of parents who have to feed their families and once you start banning ads here and there for ridiculous reasons you prejudice the businesses.

In this case I say it's ridiculous because even if a kid clicks a casino ad, this little person will have to deposit funds in order to play and from where does a kid have money? No bank accounts, no credit or debit cards, nothing... In worse case this kid will sign up and that is all.

Casinos have the right to adopt the graphic tematic they want on their business without regulators interference.

[maydna]

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I think it will be better if we will be explaining these things to them at a certain age. I know it would be early but they might be more curious and rebel at that because we are getting strict into things. I think we should explain those things so they will not be bothered by that in the future while they grew up. The more they are curious since they don't know what those are, the more they will want to experience those things.

Yes, if we can explain those things to them with soft and show them the risk of gambling, I think they will understand and will not try to get close to gambling. Even if they play with their friends, they can protect themselves from asking their friends to try a simple gamble.

While they grow up, we can explain the dangers of playing gambling and the risk of losing money. If they already get the basic information about that at a young age, their knowledge will about gambling, and the danger will increase, and they will not try to playing gambling. They can prevent their curiosity from becoming bigger, especially if they have many things to do every day, so their minds will not think about gambling.

[dunfida]

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Well, we are talking about an advertisement on Facebook that seems to be very attractive to children, not the television. In terms of advertisements on television, here in our country, it is so strict and I don't think this will even one advertisement about gambling would get through. It is more dangerous on the internet as you will never know what will your children click in there.

It's simply because children are exposed to technology at an early age. It isn't a bad thing overall, since some of them can discover a few of their talents early on, but it does show that parents should entertain AND educate them, not stop them. It's simply the case of the more something is out of reach, the more one wants to actually get it, and that's especially the case for children since the concept of "punishments" is really vague to them at an early point, and hell, most of the time they'd forget about it (unless you reach the level of physical abuse ofc, most would get traumatized by that).

Disciplining your child by ways of physical abuse wont really change a thing but rather they might really be ending up on growing to be a rebellious type when he grows up
which means the things that you had prohibited earlier might be really get engaged on and since he is strictly prohibited to engage then out of curiosity then they might really be
end up on going back to that.

I do agree that this is more on how parents do handle out the situation.Parenting isnt something simple that you can just simply tell your child then thats already a finished one.
You would really be needing some effort on looking p for your child and tell things and make them aware nor realize that it shouldnt really be done after all.

[boyptc]

It is more dangerous on the internet as you will never know what will your children click in there.

Yeah right.

With one simple search about a casino or about gambling through a browser like Google Chrome, the algorithm will turn the ads to those services that have ads in gambling.

And when a child goes in front of a computer and did some research or even by just watching youtube videos, it's possible that an ad like that would come. Well in FB, I've seen gambling ads, those sponsored posts/ads.

[ice098]

Disciplining your child by ways of physical abuse wont really change a thing but rather they might really be ending up on growing to be a rebellious type when he grows up
which means the things that you had prohibited earlier might be really get engaged on and since he is strictly prohibited to engage then out of curiosity then they might really be
end up on going back to that.

I do agree that this is more on how parents do handle out the situation.Parenting isnt something simple that you can just simply tell your child then thats already a finished one.
You would really be needing some effort on looking p for your child and tell things and make them aware nor realize that it shouldnt really be done after all.

An old style of parenting would not work anymore to the children today. Children today are more exposed to the technologies which i guess parents couldn't control because technology were already a part of our lives. Parents should learn another parenting stule because chicldren today were so adventurous and wanted to explore in their life. They can't control children not to go to facebook or not to hold a gadget but rather educate the children and explained to them what the don'ts and do's.

[FlightyPouch]

It is more dangerous on the internet as you will never know what will your children click in there.

Yeah right.

With one simple search about a casino or about gambling through a browser like Google Chrome, the algorithm will turn the ads to those services that have ads in gambling.

And when a child goes in front of a computer and did some research or even by just watching youtube videos, it's possible that an ad like that would come. Well in FB, I've seen gambling ads, those sponsored posts/ads.

The sad thing here is that they don't even need to search it. There are a lot of websites on the internet and most of them don't actually filter their site to be child friendly. As koreanovelas and animes are a hit to children nowadays, there are a lot of these sites in this genre that have ads all over them not just about gambling but also includes adult contents.

[pixie85]

This aside we do have a bigger problem here to address.
1. Why did the company use this kind of advertising in the first way ?
2. What should we do to ensure that kids under 18 doesn't start to gamble? We cannot ask them for identity cards and then expect them to show.

Maybe it wasn't their intention to aim at children but show gambling as something innocent.

Who really plays with stuffed animals? Do 17 year olds do it? Do 16 year olds to it? Usually these toys are for children not neenager and children rarely have their own money.
It they wanted to promote among teenagers there were better way s than stuffed animals.

For you it's "children under 18" but in many countries 16 year olds are allowed to marry and start their own families. They also can drive cars. Is a 16 year old really a child?