Tightening of gambling influencers etc.

[Akbarkoe]

I'm a little confused about what to call the title, but let's start with this sentence....

I'm quite concerned about the negative experiences of gamblers who experience negative outcomes, such as following bets placed by influencers and/or joining prediction groups or paying to join betting signal-sharing communities, with minimal returns, despite the methods they employ to encourage their audience to join such spaces without any clear outcome.

I'm starting to question this.
Does your country regulate gambling influencers, and can they be restricted by preventing them from providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately?
If not, should we propose to the government to regulate these influencers so they don't easily engage in such activities without clear standards, such as betting classes, etc.? This could be reduced if the government took more action in enforcing regulations against those who influence gamblers.

[Frankolala]

I don't think that the government will show interest on stopping these influencers or group because some are not known. Especially, the group or platforms. It's a matter of choice for you to join and believe in their predictions or not, it's not by force. Gambling is a game that's unpredictable and profit is made by luck. They have all the excuse to give the government if they're bursted. Highest the government will do is to task them.

[yahoo62278]

If it bothers you that much, stop watching them or joining their groups. Problem solved. The government isn't going to step in and do anything, all they really care about is if they're not getting their piece. So unless you have proof these influencers are evading the tax man, don't expect help from the government.

You are the 1 making the conscious effort to watch, so control yourself.

[cryptoaddictchie]

Does your country regulate gambling influencers, and can they be restricted by preventing them from providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately?
If not, should we propose to the government to regulate these influencers so they don't easily engage in such activities without clear standards, such as betting classes, etc.? This could be reduced if the government took more action in enforcing regulations against those who influence gamblers.

In the Philippines, gambling itself is regulated through PAGCOR ^{(Regulatory Agency for Games and Gambling)} but gambling influencers and paid tipsters largely fall into a gray area with very weak enforcement, especially on social media. While there are advertising and consumer protection laws, they’re rarely applied to influencers selling signals or hyping bets without accountability, which leaves gamblers exposed. Realistically, stronger regulation like licensing, disclosure requirements, or outright bans on paid betting signals would help, but it would require the government to treat influencer gambling promotion as a public harm, not just entertainment.

[Su-asa]

The government can not do anything to them unless they are guilty of money laundrying, but if they are not forcing you to pay anything band you willingly send money to join their channels because you believe you will get a positive return from them, then I don't see why the government will come in. However, just like what the first and second person have said here, you as the gambler should just control yourself and not always be involved in anything good to be true stories shared by influencers or free betting codes from them.

[xbetz.io]

The core issue isn’t influencers themselves, it’s incentives and asymmetry. When someone profits from volume, referrals or subscriptions rather than long-term outcomes, prediction quality becomes secondary to engagement.

Signals, tips, and “exclusive groups” almost always converge toward the same failure mode: short-term wins amplified, losses normalized or hidden, accountability disappears over time.  Regulation can help at the edges but transparency around incentives and verifiable track records would do far more than outright bans.

[_act_]

Does your country regulate gambling influencers, and can they be restricted by preventing them from providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately?
If not, should we propose to the government to regulate these influencers so they don't easily engage in such activities without clear standards, such as betting classes, etc.? This could be reduced if the government took more action in enforcing regulations against those who influence gamblers.

There is nothing the governments will do about this at all, all you need to do is to educate yourself and avoid these scammers and influencers. People should undoubtedly know that gambling is not for money making but should be for fun. So the government can not do anything about this at all.

Only what I know the government can try to do is to make sure the influencers only promote legal gambling sites in their jurisdiction but the funny thing is that most government have not been able to do this in some countries.

[Accardo]

Influencers who promote illicit casinos should be tightened by the government and also traced down to reduce the repercussions of battling with devious admins, such should be the bills passed on influencers, other than that, it's not feasible to be tough on casino promoters who are with genuine and respected casinos.

On the other hand, in regards to underaged followers to the influencers, the risk is there and the government would have no other option than to take strict rules on influencer marketing in cutting down the high rate of underaged gamblers, but I don't see a better approach to slowing down how young less than 18 social media users come across gaming ads.

[Fortify]

I'm a little confused about what to call the title, but let's start with this sentence....

I'm quite concerned about the negative experiences of gamblers who experience negative outcomes, such as following bets placed by influencers and/or joining prediction groups or paying to join betting signal-sharing communities, with minimal returns, despite the methods they employ to encourage their audience to join such spaces without any clear outcome.

I'm starting to question this.
Does your country regulate gambling influencers, and can they be restricted by preventing them from providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately?
If not, should we propose to the government to regulate these influencers so they don't easily engage in such activities without clear standards, such as betting classes, etc.? This could be reduced if the government took more action in enforcing regulations against those who influence gamblers.

There have been crackdowns on this sort of unlabeled sponsorships in my country, but whether different platforms or the people actually follow the law is another matter. It is very hard to distinguish a paid streamer advertising a product or someone just recommending it innocently, but you can be fairly sure when it comes to the gambling genre that almost every good word is a paid advert. There are very few circumstances where gamblers are going to pour their money into a site endlessly, or even have enough money to continue doing it day after day, without there being some kind of partnership in place. If you watch them for long enough you can see the patterns and the subtle hints, but audiences don't like fakery so there is a fine line for them to follow without getting exposed. There should be stricter laws on this, like forcing gambling companies to declare all sponsorships on their side - at least in the jurisdictions that enforce these rules.

[ZeroVinsonN]

No one is forcing anybody to gamble so the government has no legal reason to stop influencer from promoting gambling and prediction sites, it's the gambler's choice to follow these platforms where they claim to have access to sure odds that are guaranteed to win, they willingly spend money to pay for these games but what they fail to ask themselves is that if these people had access to sure odds then why ask people to pay them to share, why no just place the bets themselves and win big, nobody is willing to ask themselves questions all they want is a quick way to make money.

[uneng]

To regulate influencers isn't the core of the solution here, because we know there are countries where such advertisements are forbidden and there are still influencers willing to promote casinos, as the payment in counterpart weights more than the potential punishment received by local authorities.

And since those influencers are being paid, it means there is a public willing to adopt the produts and services promoted by them. Therefore, regulations are useless on this matter. The only way to get rid of misinformation is through solid and legit education. An education which encourages students to think rationally and critically, instead of the brainwashing educational system we have in this world where you are learned how to be a sheep walking directly to the slaughterhouse.

[Asuspawer09]

I mean the government is not going to do anything about that, or probably they just can't do anything about that, if the user's wanted to do it they are going to do it, influencers are just doing it for money for sure, and they are going to influence a lot of people if they dont know what they are doing they might be become a victim of some influencers, It's still going to depend since influence might just be doing it's job getting some kind of commissions on gambling websites, Personally I really think that influencers have a huge responsibilities when it comes to promoting some kind of gambling things, if they are promoting something like a scam, it is going to be there fault as well since you can't just promote something that you don't really understand or know something about, you are responsible with it, I mean there might be times that you might as well be a victim, I i think that is why you should be careful and verify it by yourself first before even starting to promote something.

It is for sure going to be better if the gambling platforms are being regulated from scam websites to legitimate ones. Getting influenced by influencers is just one inevitable thing that we cannot stop, if someone wants to try it, they are free to do it, but it is for sure going to be their own decision.

[gunhell16]

I'm a little confused about what to call the title, but let's start with this sentence....

I'm quite concerned about the negative experiences of gamblers who experience negative outcomes, such as following bets placed by influencers and/or joining prediction groups or paying to join betting signal-sharing communities, with minimal returns, despite the methods they employ to encourage their audience to join such spaces without any clear outcome.

I'm starting to question this.
Does your country regulate gambling influencers, and can they be restricted by preventing them from providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately?
If not, should we propose to the government to regulate these influencers so they don't easily engage in such activities without clear standards, such as betting classes, etc.? This could be reduced if the government took more action in enforcing regulations against those who influence gamblers.

In my country, I don't think the government will give that any attention at this time because our current government is run like a syndicate. They won't agree to impose restrictions or regulations on influencers.

This is because the majority of our political officials themselves hold stakes in both legal and illegal online casinos. There are so many unknown influencers promoting illegal online casinos on social media platforms, while well-known celebrities are the ones being paid to promote the legal ones. This is how the system works in our country at the moment.

[ryzaadit]

IMO, the goverment who are potential to handle these matter is on US.

Other countries, I don't really know. But, US have more powers about these trying to regulated gambling more strict since some of their teritory is also have their own law too. Gambling already reached the peaks right now.

Also, influencer right now starting to advertiser loans gambling.

[Alphakilo]

The government obviously benefits more from gambling businesses in terms of revenue and taxes and when gamblers loss, they add more money to the gambling platform portfolio that enable them fulfill their taxes, so why do you think that the government would interfere with gambling influencers.
A gambler should learn the pros and cons of the games they decide to gamble on and if it is skill based or not, it is their duty to understand how to have an edge over the house, although easier said, it is still advised to know how to gamble on your own with your senses than copy or follow gambling influencers to do what they do.
It is also good to gamble with funds you can afford to lose so as not to be too worried when you lose from following what influencers predict.

[Charles-Tim]

IMO, the goverment who are potential to handle these matter is on US.

Other countries, I don't really know. But, US have more powers about these trying to regulated gambling more strict since some of their teritory is also have their own law too. Gambling already reached the peaks right now.

I will say EU and UK have high level of gambling laws very well.

Other countries can have the laws also but is it what the government trying to have law on? I do not think so.

Each countries can have such gambling law if they want.

Also, influencer right now starting to advertiser loans gambling.

If a gambler do not take loans from the site the influencers are advertising, they will take the loan from elsewhere if they are qualified to take the loan. Although, I do not support this but that is just how addicted gamblers are.

[BABY SHOES]

I don't think that the government will show interest on stopping these influencers or group because some are not known. Especially, the group or platforms. It's a matter of choice for you to join and believe in their predictions or not, it's not by force. Gambling is a game that's unpredictable and profit is made by luck. They have all the excuse to give the government if they're bursted. Highest the government will do is to task them.

In my country, there was a discourse where the government would regulate influencers more strictly and give them certification as legitimate influencers recognized by the government, but this is also unclear, it's just a plan and was only reported in the news a few months ago.

According to some local news I read... it is said that this year will be explored again about the design of influencer certification, because often these content creators invite high-risk investments that make many of their followers experience huge losses including those lured into joining expensive classes.

This is what I'm saying, not gambling influencers, but influencers who often discuss crypto.
Because if an influencer discusses gambling or promotes, then he will be arrested.

[Churchillvv]

It’s not a matter of public concern instead it’s a matter of individual decision whether to take what they give you or not even though it’s convincing yet no government will have you to fight them even if they scam you because you know for sure that there is no better skill than what you have already known that gambling is luck at every stands, so why allow someone convince you otherwise to pay money so you can get predictions that will make you rich. So for me they have all the excuse in the world to escape whatever you will have to say against them.

[Odusko]

Those influencers are just doing their job we need to also do our own job by selecting what we allow to get to our Media space, alot of time we allow so much pop ups and notifications that we dont really need and for that we keep complaining about their negative impact and wanting government to intervene to restrict them.
But the true is that we have our privacy and likes setting in our mobile device and PC which if we set them, you can easily limit all those unwanted ads and videos.

[iv4n]

I'm a little confused...

I get you. I am also confused about the fact that influencers have any real influence at all, but apparently, they do. And in some cases, it's going to extremes:

-people copying lifestyles they can’t afford

-taking financial or gambling “advice” from entertainers

-defending influencers like they’re close friends or family

It's confusing that some people are buying that shit, so who are they targeting? Who is the most vulnerable in all this? Young & naive maybe?

If not, should we propose to the government to regulate these influencers so they don't easily engage in such activities without clear standards, such as betting classes, etc.?

We don't need more regulations, and we don't need to tighten the rules. Why do so many people think about that in the first place? Can we raise awareness and healthy logic? Critical thinking? Education before punishment?