Tightening of gambling influencers etc.

[Botnake]

These influencers are making an income from it, so obviously they will continue doing it as long as they benefit from it.

The government will just regulate those illegal casinos, but they will not go extra effort on punishing those gambling influencers who are promoting unreliable bets or signals.

We just need to be cautious on our decisions, and make choices based on what we are capable of managing. If its not making you beneficial, then ignore it.

[livingfree]

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 think that most countries have a regulation for them but, it's not all of them are following the rules that the government has set for them.

So, going with the basics like taxation and such. They're doing that but they can be justified that's why they're "influencers" if ever some gamblers come out and blame their losses to an influencer.

This is going to be a broad discussion and there will be laws that will get involved in it as to justify if they're just fine to continue their influencing thing and no rule is being violated.

[STT]

Not sure it is that easy to regulate, you might just export the streams to other countries instead and people will still watch it anyway.  Just heavy handed laws arent the way imo, why governments cant just allow a free economy and the people to take part with their wages which have already been taxed once I dont understand; that should be normal imo.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Not sure it is that easy to regulate, you might just export the streams to other countries instead and people will still watch it anyway.  Just heavy handed laws arent the way imo, why governments cant just allow a free economy and the people to take part with their wages which have already been taxed once I dont understand; that should be normal imo.

Well, this is one of the nightmares of being dependent on a government and having absolutely no privacy, the government will want to control everything in and around you life, even after having taken tax from your money, they still want to know everything about how you spend the same money, if possible, they want to be the ones deciding when you go out and when you stay in, when you eat, when you bath, when you brush your teeth and so on..

This is one of the reasons why some people are so headbent on privacy, privacy is a fundamental human right, but the government is also doing everything they can to ensure that the fight for privacy by the general public is lost, because they know the type of access they have and what they stand to lose.
Like I said in my previous comment, governments have no business with influencers, I personally don't see any thing wrong in the way influencers perform their job, but as potential clients, it is completely our responsibility to carry out our own research before ever choosing to work with any influencer if what we need an influencer for isn't something we can handle on our own..

[shawonngp]

Gambling is prohibited by the government of my country; if anyone is involved in gambling, they will be subjected to severe punishment, fines, and imprisonment. The government takes extreme action against it. And any promotion of gambling on social media is prohibited.    Some very popular influencers were punished by the government for promoting gambling. I don't necessarily follow any gambling influencer; I always avoid them. Because they do paid promotion, those who follow them end up losing.

[Orpichukwu]

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. 

The government don't need to entirely stop them, but they can try to and regulate them on the type of advert they send out there for people to watch. Some are very deceptive, and we have vulnerable people who come across those types of videos and can easily believe and follow them without running their own research, which only leads them to loss. We also need to do ourselves a favour and learn how to ignore such promotions.

[TypoTonic]

Does your country regulate gambling influencers, and can they be restricted by preventing them from providing signals or invitations to bet indiscriminately?

We do have a 'government-owned and controlled' regulatory commission (PAGCOR), but as far as I know, they only have authority over gambling operators. I'm not sure if the same rules apply to individual gambling influencers and prediction groups, although the government has issued warnings before against promoting illegal online gambling on social media. Facebook (Meta) even took down the pages of 20 Filipino influencers because of this.

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.

Some of our lawmakers have started drafting a bill for this last year, but their proposal is still pending as of now.

[imthegreat]

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.

I've lived in countries where gambling was strictly prohibited (except in special zones), and in countries where it was legal. But I can say for sure that in both places, you could easily gamble online if you wanted to, and a VPN helped. And you can always withdraw money into crypto, which completely undermines any government's attempts to ban gambling.
As long as online casinos exist, you can play there, and no one can do anything about it. And I wouldn't be surprised if the very officials who ban gambling in the country themselves enjoy gambling at home, because there have already been hundreds of such examples, with scandals in the news.

[len01]

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.

One question that answers all your questions: what if influencers also pay taxes to the government? Try to guess what you’ll get by reporting this issue to the authorities.

The government won’t really care as long as the money is talking, nothing will change. And one thing we should remember is that influencers are just advertising brands they’re supposed to promote, and any decision is entirely up to each individual. So we can’t really drag the government into this. IMO

[Kelward]

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.

I think that government have more important things to think about than how influencers are manipulating bettors to follow them and about regulating signal groups on social media. Social media is an open space which accommodates all sorts of characters which government allows so it's left for everybody to believe what they want. Government's major concern is taxation, they can only get involved if things get out of hand which by the looks of things they are not showing sufficient concern. Every gambler must learn to be disciplined, if you're not in total control of your gambling you will face every negative aspects of gambling which all leads to lose of your money

[Betwrong]

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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 think in a free world, the less things are regulated, the better. I mean, there are things that should be regulated, like prostitution, drugs trade and stuff, but regulating influencers is a bit too much. Don't be stupid, don't drink liters and liters of Coca-Cola daily because you see people doing it on the telly, or you'll become overweight faster than you think, but don't ask the gov to regulate the telly. (Drinking Coca-Cola is like betting in my story).

[danherbias07]

Who will pay for them to move about such a thing?

Let's face it. The government of most countries will only move about certain things when they see money can be made from it. They will probably just throw away any suggestion that will not include any profits for them, and this one doesn't.
They don't care. Also, it's because it is the choice of the gambler to either follow them or not. They will have to face the consequences if they make a mistake, and there should be no one to blame but the gambler.
The government is making money through taxes on gambling. I seriously doubt they want to put a stop to influences that can make them more money if the gamblers keep on betting.

[maydna]

Gambling is prohibit here so the government will arrested gambling influencers if they live in social medias. Some influencers already taken to the police headquarters and being asked about their online streaming.

But if gambling is allows, the government should regulating those influencers so they don't engaging in gambling activities without clear standards procedures from the government.

The worry thing is minors can playing gambling without parental controlling. They can using their gadgets with friends while they are not at home and if the government tightening the regulations or gambling influencers, they will search for the way to promoting the casinos.

But if the government can build relationships to the gambling influencers, they may follows the regulations so both will gets advantage.

[Sammye3]

To a large extent,  the government has little or no impact when it comes to gambling influencers who request payment to give out sure games that we all know is not always accurate because no amount of regulation or restriction would eliminate the existence of sports scammers.

Anyone who decides to gamble should be an adult and should understand the consequences and dangers involved, including purchasing games from an unverified source and tagged as "sure game", because this has being the recent trend for scammers as they rip so many people off their hard earned money.

[Popkon6]

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 don't think the government can discourage this, because gambling is a choice of every person, gambling is not forced on anyone. So the government has no problem with who gambled or who played, but the government can create an issue and put pressure on gambling, but besides that, who or what group cannot be identified. And no person indicates any person to gamble, rather gamblers move towards gambling of their own free will, so the government may be able to put pressure on the gambling platform but it cannot discourage it.

[ultrloa]

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.

Regulation towards those brazen actions done by government is not happening here and this is the reason why I still see lots of them doing false marketing towards the casino they are promoting.

It sucks to hear them saying that its easy to win and became rich if they signed up under their referral links. Since this is blatant lie and they are just trying to fool their viewer with this statements they made.

That's why if I read influencers saying this I immediately block them because its very clear that they do everything just for the sake of their gain and will not care about the welfare of those people who see their videos. Also yeah this actions will reduce if government will take action, that's why its good if government will regulate those influencers and penalize them if they commit violation.

[noorman0]

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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?

Yes, the government in my country has strict regulations regarding the role of influencers promoting certain services. Several years ago, several local influencers were arrested for promoting gambling services under the guise of trading paltform. However, their enforcement of the regulations is passive. They only take action if someone comes into the public eye with multiple accusations.

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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 the focus is on mitigating the real impact, rather than simply banning content, the government needs to expand and clarify regulations regarding the role and responsibilities of influencers in the digital gambling ecosystem.

[Text]

here in the Philippines gambling itself is regulated by PAGCOR but when it comes to gambling influencers, prediction groups & paid signals it feels like there’s a big grey area, a lot of these influencers market themselves as content creators/tipsters so they don’t really fall under strict gambling regulations because of that they can promote bets, invite people to join paid groups & show only their wins w/o real accountability. Personally I think some form of regulation would help, not necessarily banning them outright but setting clear standards like mandatory disclosures, proof of long term results, responsible gambling education & penalties for misleading claims even basic rules like no guaranteed wins would already make a difference.

[Cointxz]

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.

My country regulates gambling influencers recently and already have fines for influencers that promote gambling in social media.

What I’m not aware if the law is properly implemented already since there’s still a some gambling streamers that still never stop streaming gambling.

But our lawmakers is fighting this issue before the flood control scandal hits the PH so their attention is now away on gambling problem.

[Shinpako09]

The government can’t possibly handle everything. I mean, as citizens, we’re responsible for ourselves. Things like this are often considered too small for the government to step in because they believe individuals should be able to decide for themselves since we all have our own minds. It’s not like an influencer is forcing you to do this, to do that. If they were, then the government would take action. In the end, you have your own mind and your own decisions.