Tightening of gambling influencers etc.

[Agbamoni]

Gambling influencers are creating opportunities for themselves in a world where if you dont have a connection, you wont have an opportunity to make money. Both advertising for gambling platforms and having their own side business,s which deals with granting subscription plans for gambling tips. Whatever the case may be, the government is not concerend on what is happening. It's like trying to make decisions for people on how to spend the money they have. Trying to limit people from things they see as oppotunity. 

[LogitechMouse]

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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.

If I remember correctly, gambling influencers here in our country are only allowed to promote REGULATED gambling websites, but outside of that, if there are some influencers out there that are caught promoting illegal websites, they might be put to jail because of it that's why based on my experience, I've seen a significant drop in gambling influencers who are promoting gambling at least in our country alone because they're targeting those popular ones that are promoting illegal websites back then.

As for providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately, there are no rules to that as far as I can remember, and I don't think that the government will intervene with those because at the end of the day, it's still our decisions whether we follow their signals, bet indiscriminately or not. As long as these gambling influencers are gambling regulated websites then there's nothing wrong with it. I despise some of them though because of how they're promoting it, but it is what it is.

It's easy to determine the problem, but it's hard to give solutions especially realistic solutions. I would ask you. What do you mean though when you say "government to regulate those influencers"? I mean how would the government is supposed to do it?

[Ndabagi01]

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?

Betting indiscriminately is not the work of an influencer to guide gamblers, it is the work of gamblers to guide their choices of bets and how to make sure they abide by a strict rule of not gambling beyond their means. Indiscriminately is for the gambler to avoid and not for the influencer to preach.

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.

As long as these casinos are paying their taxes, and this influencers are also paying their taxes to the government, I doubt the government will take another stringent rule on them about how they advertise gambling activities to the public. As long as the advertisement is not targeting under age groups, I don’t think government will take any more actions on them.

[coin-investor]

This could be reduced if the government took more action in enforcing regulations against those who influence gamblers.

Because of their manipulation and deceit, our government totally banned all these influencers from promoting casino activities. They will be charged with fines and imprisonment if they insist on promoting gambling activities.

This is the result of too many complaints from people deceived by misleading promotional materials, such as claims that you can make gambling your income source by following their signals and joining their affiliate links, which are all lies.

Banning these influencers from gambling promotion made a positive impact because there are now very few or none complaining of getting deceived by what gambling should give them.

[Cyber_warrior]

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?

My country doesn’t regulate gambling influencers, you are free to post anything you like about gambling, you are free to create groups and be providing signals on the group. As a gambler you should be the one that will be smart and you not going to follow things that they post about gambling predictions.

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.?

Is it really necessary? Since they are not forcing anyone, so I don’t think it’s necessary to regulate. People joining their signal groups are doing that at their own wish, so nobody is forcing anyone.

[AmoreJaz]

Gambling influencers are creating opportunities for themselves in a world where if you dont have a connection, you wont have an opportunity to make money. Both advertising for gambling platforms and having their own side business,s which deals with granting subscription plans for gambling tips. Whatever the case may be, the government is not concerend on what is happening. It's like trying to make decisions for people on how to spend the money they have. Trying to limit people from things they see as oppotunity.  

I believe most countries have no regulations towards influencers, hence, they can do whatever they please. And it is up to the audience how they will react on what they see and watch over the net. Because these influencers don't care about what you do with your funds, what matters is they are getting paid for what they do and so enticing more viewers or subscribers is one of their targets why they are doing such promotion.
So for now, it is the audience that needs to be cautious on what they watch over the net. A lot of them are fake and deception.

[Patikno]

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.

Unfortunately, my country prohibits all gambling, so there are no gambling influencers and no regulations regarding them. However, if my country legalized it, I think the government role in regulating gambling would be crucial, especially for gambling influencers. The government could create new policies regarding this, and they could impose strict sanctions on gambling influencers if they violate them. Well, gambling influencers don't actually force their followers to follow their advice, but what I dislike is those who offer paid classes, even though they don't guarantee winning, and for gambling influencers who provide their advice for free, I don't think that is a problem.

[Jubilee58]

Government can actually regulate the activities of gambling influencers if they wish to do that , but the truth is that influencers doesn't compel bettors to bet on their predictions and doing that is absolutely your own decision. Is just like other bettors or prediction site that makes predictions and post online and whoever that likes their prediction will just pick it and bet on them without being forced.

As far as I know, their is no sure bet, all prediction are provided based on the performance of clubs or form and during a match their are contingencies or unexpected events that can occur thereby making the game to go against the prediction of a bettor.
Now there are predictors who offer paid plans and engaging in any paid plan is absolutely at your own risk because is never a guarantee of winning a bet.

Many of this gamblers who follow influencers and paid plans are just people who don't have enough time to make predictions on their own , either because of their work or other activities.

[Cantsay]

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.

If government in my country are going to do that it would mean that they will also have interest in regulating the entire gambling industry in the country and I’m sure my government are not really bothered about what an influencer says about a sport or their predictions on the whole thing.

Countries that regulates gambling might be able to do it and probably impose a ban for any citizen to make such posts or restrict social media from displaying such content to its citizens and that could get the job done, but for those that are yet to be regulated I don’t think anything can be done about it.

[mirakal]

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.

They do regulate it, but not that deep. It’s mostly limited to making sure influencers are only promoting licensed casinos. Once they start sharing bets or encouraging people to join groups, that’s already outside the government’s monitoring. And we’re not kids who can be easily fooled, we should already know how to gamble responsibly.

At the end of the day, it’s still on us to do proper due diligence before joining any group or following any influencer. Personally, I prefer doing things on my own. I don’t really trust what influencers say since most of them are just pushing sign-ups and trying to make people gamble more for affiliate income.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

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.

I've never actually imagined something like this and I don't think it's even possible for the government to begin to regulate gambling Influencers when it's not like the influencers are forcing people into gambling or betting...

We make the choice to participate in betting on our own, and when we find an advert or whatever other means this influencers are using to promote their platform, we are at liberty to choose to join or simply over look the ad, and even when the influencers charge money to start getting betting signals, they don't force the gamblers or bettors to pay, you decide on your own to pay to join or simply overlook and do your thing your way, what exactly can government regulate here?
How will a betting or gambling class be formed and what effect do you really think this will have on gamblers/bettors where gambling is mostly game of luck and not skill?.

When it comes to gambling, the government can only regulate casinos, ensuring they maintain a good relationship with the gamblers and vise versa, I do not think betting or gambling influencers should have any business with the government except there is a private personal issue involving an influencer.

[Lida93]

Desperation is what makes many of this gamblers vulnerable to be influenced by influencers to the point that they can actually stake with funds that they never planned to use for gambling, just because it was a game from a popular influencer they know
The influencers are only doing a promotional business just like every other general goods and services that are being advertised to the public. Hence they can't be restricted from doing their own business. Moreover, gambling is for adults, and adults should be responsible for who and what they follow.

[SUPERSAIAN]

If you're worried about gamblers in this situation, you can start by doing something yourself. Governments can't and don't want to pursue such strict enforcement. Some private organizations might do this. Ultimately, it all comes down to the individual's will. People who lose control need to realize their situation and ask for help if they don't ask for help, there's nothing you can do.

If you have a close relative you're worried about, I think you can start by helping them.

[Somto9Light]

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.

This is true, stopping those influencers might be less compared to the things the government have in thier Budget. So if you ask me I would say that is individuals choice to decide if they should keep paying attention to whatever information they are sharing there or not, I personally decided not to pay attention to whatever they are doing there if not for the fact that you bring such discussion i almost forgot that gambling influencers are still existing because it's been long since I unfollowed them in almost all the social media platforms because I don't even want to get any information from them.

[Hazink]

Regulating them is not going to solve the problem beside most of these tipsters are faceless. They just create the telegram channel to promote them and people start bumping in because they are looking for means to make money real quick from gambling.

Even if those who share such tips are sanctioned, they will still use another private way to do it, the problem is with those who still believe int them and still patronise them because of nobody is going to those channels they won't keep doing what they are doing, if the government should do anything they should focus on education the people on how not to trust on those things.

[alani123]

In my country there's zero enforcement against influencers and even the government does nothing about companies that have been built around promotion of non licensed casinos.

Even some huge YouTube channels hire old school rappers to promote non licensed slots. It's weird because upon the request of a government twitch and YouTube will ban a channel in the next day. Which shows the Greek government doesn't care at all about influencers so far.

[Davidvictorson]

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?

Nope, my country does not regulate gambling influencers. I don't even think that they should be focused on them. In my estimation, that will be a waste of resources. Did you know that anyone with a social media account that talks about gambling or betting is an influencer? You do not need to have a massive following. Your opinion on a bet can influence another person's betting decision.

The government should be focused on more responsible gambling campaigns and also on making the resources to help gambling addicts easily accessible and affordable. 

[NurseHub]

Sometimes I find it difficult to know that some people still don't know how to avoid this influencer. The government won't stop them, just like they haven't stopped cigarettes but only instruct them to stick to above 18 years. The government looks out to stop every illegal gambling site; that's the best they can do for gamblers.  You can't blame the influencer because it's their job to advertise. If you don't like it, stop watching them. Like in my music app, they do some annoying unavailable ads, but I just don't let it get to me. 

[Yamifoud]

The government is said to do things for the welfare of its people, but if they can also make an income from it, then that will compromised their role or job.

However, with your question, I don't think they will hear that and address the concern. There are millions of gambling influencers all over the social media and it would be a waste of their time to get on it individually. This is a just a matter believing on them or not. And since this is gambling, everyone is free to decide whether they will gamble or not.

[DBTC-brain]

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.

Well , everyone wants to make their money. Just like the way the gamblers wants to make money buy all means possible , the influencers too want to make their own money in every way possible.
   Although some of these gamblers , despite the fact that they know that the game of gambling is a 50/50 something, they still want to leverage on loans to gamble.
  Although in life , one has to take risks , but  I think these gamblers are taking too much risk. They are too risky.