Philippines banning gambling ads?

[HelliumZ]

Banning advertisment won't stop them from gambling ball they did was turn of physical platforms from actually operating. Not online platform. If only they can focus on the root cause and tackle it once and for all, instead of beating around the bush running in circles and not doing that needs to be done. Another issue they might encounter is enforcing such bill. Passing it is another thing, enforcing it one major thing.

The ban on all these advertisements in the Philippines only shows the government's responsibility, especially since the government has only banned advertisements but may not have passed strict laws or bills to implement it.
The government's responsibility is to raise public awareness and inform the public about the dangers of gambling, but it has not banned offline and online gambling activities in the country. This is nothing more than an eyewash on the part of the government.

[$crypto$]

I dont think removing the advertising has any effect on those who are already addicted, it might do some good to those who are playing and eventually are at risk of getting addicted. Like a primary prevention of a disease.

However these type of bans are nothing new. Those who want to and wish to gamble will always find methods to play either online or offline.

What the government eventually should do is control the underage people from gambling and raise awareness about gambling addiction in college and university level.

Either way the thing to see now is whether the battle between casino owners and casino haters tilts towards which direction.

Don't know and haven't found any more data, is it when countries ban gambling ads that addiction decreases, or it still doesn't decrease and even increases?

Those who want to keep playing do always find a solution, let alone only limited to prohibited ads while some casino sites are not blocked then the same as not Prevention.

[Natalim]

If you gamble purely for entertainment then I don't really see any reason to try to stop you completely. If you control your spending, don't try to chase your loss and see the money you spend as cost of entertainment then that is completely different situation.

There is always this kind of statement, “if,” but I dont think the government is looking at it that way. They are looking at the current situation where gambling addiction is increasing and making people struggle more in their daily lives.

They already know they cannot completely stop gambling, and they probably have no plan to ban it since they are still allowing it. But at least they can minimize the number of people being attracted to gambling by banning or limiting advertisements.

For me, this is just the first step, and I believe there can still be positive developments after this. If people stop seeing gambling everywhere, they may no longer think of it as a normal part of daily life, and they will also be less tempted to try it.

[sompitonov]

The ban on all these advertisements in the Philippines only shows the government's responsibility, especially since the government has only banned advertisements but may not have passed strict laws or bills to implement it.
The government's responsibility is to raise public awareness and inform the public about the dangers of gambling, but it has not banned offline and online gambling activities in the country. This is nothing more than an eyewash on the part of the government.

It's quite possible that this action's effectiveness is crucial, not just the grand pronouncements made by high-ranking officials or those who control this issue. Because as long as there's too much advertising, it can have a negative impact on segments of the population, especially those who are susceptible and prone to being swayed by such advertising. I believe that if this advertising continues in this manner and nothing is done about it, we'll likely have to consider providing various forms of assistance to the losing players who will hit rock bottom and find themselves penniless or in debt.

[MRY]

Banning advertisment won't stop them from gambling ball they did was turn of physical platforms from actually operating. Not online platform. If only they can focus on the root cause and tackle it once and for all, instead of beating around the bush running in circles and not doing that needs to be done. Another issue they might encounter is enforcing such bill. Passing it is another thing, enforcing it one major thing.

The ban on all these advertisements in the Philippines only shows the government's responsibility, especially since the government has only banned advertisements but may not have passed strict laws or bills to implement it.
The government's responsibility is to raise public awareness and inform the public about the dangers of gambling, but it has not banned offline and online gambling activities in the country. This is nothing more than an eyewash on the part of the government.

You are correct, not closing operations permits, but only regulating commercial broadcast content is a half way measure among regulators. Although avoidance of visual exposure can be used to temporarily relieve social pressure, the betting business is allowed to function at its own free will as specified by the authority of the country.

[goldkingcoiner]

I think banning advertising is pointless. A ban might work, but it would be a drop in the ocean. It would have virtually no impact. All social media is clogged with this advertising, and no one can do anything about it.

The Philippine government pretends to care about its citizens, but that's far from the truth. Officials don't care about the people or their problems. They're only concerned with one thing: getting rich. Anything else is a dead end.

Yeah, pretty much this.

You can try to ban advertising something like gambling across social media platforms but there is no way to actually enforce that ban effectively to the degree they are thinking of banning it. So would it be effective and protect people? Maybe. But people will still see advertisements for gambling.

I think the whole thing is just politicians placating certain people by pretending to implement something that will actually work, even though they very obviously know that there is a zero chance of it working as intended...

The question is where this motivation came from in the first place. Follow the money trail...

[Out of mind]

Banning advertisment won't stop them from gambling ball they did was turn of physical platforms from actually operating. Not online platform. If only they can focus on the root cause and tackle it once and for all, instead of beating around the bush running in circles and not doing that needs to be done. Another issue they might encounter is enforcing such bill. Passing it is another thing, enforcing it one major thing.

The ban on all these advertisements in the Philippines only shows the government's responsibility, especially since the government has only banned advertisements but may not have passed strict laws or bills to implement it.
The government's responsibility is to raise public awareness and inform the public about the dangers of gambling, but it has not banned offline and online gambling activities in the country. This is nothing more than an eyewash on the part of the government.

The initiative taken by the government in the Philippines is commendable, but it is very difficult to implement it completely. It is difficult to completely suppress gambling advertisements from social media. If the government really passes the bill strictly, it will be suppressed. Since the government may have taken such a step on online casinos and offline gambling to show the people, but if it is not implemented completely, it will definitely be a show-off. However, since the government has taken such a step, I think if they manage it well, they can eliminate it, but currently, online casinos are gaining the most popularity in all countries of the world. In that case, I do not think that this country can completely eliminate online casino advertisements, it is very unlikely.

[Findingnemo]

Restricting or banning gambling related ads is not a new thing, it even exists in many countries but still the casino will find their ways to reach out to their customers and even if they don't gambling will not fade away like the regular business, they will still be there probably till the end of humans.

I don't want to give any opinion about whether the bill will be passed or not.

[Hewlet]

Banning advertisment won't stop them from gambling ball they did was turn of physical platforms from actually operating. Not online platform. If only they can focus on the root cause and tackle it once and for all, instead of beating around the bush running in circles and not doing that needs to be done. Another issue they might encounter is enforcing such bill. Passing it is another thing, enforcing it one major thing.

The ban on all these advertisements in the Philippines only shows the government's responsibility, especially since the government has only banned advertisements but may not have passed strict laws or bills to implement it.
The government's responsibility is to raise public awareness and inform the public about the dangers of gambling, but it has not banned offline and online gambling activities in the country. This is nothing more than an eyewash on the part of the government.

You are correct, not closing operations permits, but only regulating commercial broadcast content is a half way measure among regulators. Although avoidance of visual exposure can be used to temporarily relieve social pressure, the betting business is allowed to function at its own free will as specified by the authority of the country.

Over exposure to something like gambling that on it own is very addictive is not a good thing and a reasonable leadership will make decision that curbs this form of excesses which is the point where i think the decision of the Philippine government is not out pf place. gambling platform might clam that they rate their product 18+ but viewers cuts across different age bracket and the younger ones that are quite inquisitive about thing might find themselves in the place of gambling at a quite young age. an outright ban might be looked at as oppression and an act of insensitivity but regulating it to a reasonable degree in terms of curbing an high level of ads that is almost everywhere is not out of place.

[Mr_Brilliant$]

Restricting or banning gambling related ads is not a new thing, it even exists in many countries but still the casino will find their ways to reach out to their customers and even if they don't gambling will not fade away like the regular business, they will still be there probably till the end of humans.

I don't want to give any opinion about whether the bill will be passed or not.

Restricting gambling ads will only reduce the amount of people that will gamble. It's not that effective but it will do a small part in reducing the amount of people gambling. Even if they go about other ways to still advertise, those loop holes can be looked at and addressed amicably.

[Findingnemo]

Restricting or banning gambling related ads is not a new thing, it even exists in many countries but still the casino will find their ways to reach out to their customers and even if they don't gambling will not fade away like the regular business, they will still be there probably till the end of humans.

I don't want to give any opinion about whether the bill will be passed or not.

Restricting gambling ads will only reduce the amount of people that will gamble. It's not that effective but it will do a small part in reducing the amount of people gambling. Even if they go about other ways to still advertise, those loop holes can be looked at and addressed amicably.

I doubt it will reduce the number of players who are going to gamble, maybe a tiny bit as you said but this is not something that happens only due to the advertisement. And the government can't just ban everything because it brings them revenue and it is essential for the government to operate so all they are trying is just pretend that they are doing something to save the people.

Then people think that the government care about us, and we have to pay them taxes and be a good citizen and everything.

[nara1892]

Restricting or banning gambling related ads is not a new thing, it even exists in many countries but still the casino will find their ways to reach out to their customers and even if they don't gambling will not fade away like the regular business, they will still be there probably till the end of humans.

I don't want to give any opinion about whether the bill will be passed or not.

Restricting gambling ads will only reduce the amount of people that will gamble. It's not that effective but it will do a small part in reducing the amount of people gambling. Even if they go about other ways to still advertise, those loop holes can be looked at and addressed amicably.

Isn’t that the whole point? Simply put, if we can’t eradicate it completely, we should at least reduce the population of future generations by limiting it. So I think this restriction is quite effective, especially when applied to social media, since nearly 90% of people now prefer to spend their time on social media rather than engaging in physical activity.
I understand that there may always be loopholes to get around it, such as using a VPN, but in my opinion, for people who have never visited gambling sites, it’s quite unlikely that they’ll try to circumvent the restrictions.

[Bigjoe33]

Restricting or banning gambling related ads is not a new thing, it even exists in many countries but still the casino will find their ways to reach out to their customers and even if they don't gambling will not fade away like the regular business, they will still be there probably till the end of humans.

I don't want to give any opinion about whether the bill will be passed or not.

Restricting gambling ads will only reduce the amount of people that will gamble. It's not that effective but it will do a small part in reducing the amount of people gambling. Even if they go about other ways to still advertise, those loop holes can be looked at and addressed amicably.

Isn’t that the whole point? Simply put, if we can’t eradicate it completely, we should at least reduce the population of future generations by limiting it. So I think this restriction is quite effective, especially when applied to social media, since nearly 90% of people now prefer to spend their time on social media rather than engaging in physical activity.
I understand that there may always be loopholes to get around it, such as using a VPN, but in my opinion, for people who have never visited gambling sites, it’s quite unlikely that they’ll try to circumvent the restrictions.

The restrictions are very much okay. Those who are already addicted to gambling may find it difficult to stop or limiting there time gambling, but those who are not yet soaked into gambling wouldn't be that serious looking for Uther means whatsoever to get going with gambling all the days of there life.

Let's say, if the government are able to prevent the young generation from getting direct and easy access to gamble by preventing them from getting such notifications and adverts on there mostly preferred social media(there resting place), then it's an evidence that in the years to come, potential gambling addicts must have been prevented from becoming addicts. If you can't get the adults, You get the young ones whose minds are still fresh, and hopefully, it will workout somehow.

[CryptSafe]

When it comes to situations as this, bills if such nature are frustrated because majority of the politicians are shareholders in most casinos while some are owner's so passing such bill is like shooting yourself on your foot which is not possible. They might move motion but believe me that motion is dead on arrival because nobody would make such a deadly move on their own line of business just to frustrate their own efforts in making more money for themselves.

[Miles2006]

Banning advertisment won't stop them from gambling ball they did was turn of physical platforms from actually operating. Not online platform. If only they can focus on the root cause and tackle it once and for all, instead of beating around the bush running in circles and not doing that needs to be done. Another issue they might encounter is enforcing such bill. Passing it is another thing, enforcing it one major thing.

The ban on all these advertisements in the Philippines only shows the government's responsibility, especially since the government has only banned advertisements but may not have passed strict laws or bills to implement it.
The government's responsibility is to raise public awareness and inform the public about the dangers of gambling, but it has not banned offline and online gambling activities in the country. This is nothing more than an eyewash on the part of the government.

If I may ask what are the chances gambling ban will survive this period? Gambling ads ban is a sign the government might likely put an end to gambling also. Sincerely I don’t understand the government in terms of gambling ban, funny how they take tax and yet view gambling as something bad which clearly people are the ones abusing the free will of gambling.
Ban on advertisement is normal I mean if it becomes out of hand, what they don’t understand is gambling addiction will continue to grow with or without online ads basically people can’t control the way they gamble, raising public awareness is still not helpful besides these gamblers fully know the side effect of irresponsible gambling.

[Pi-network314159]

When it comes to situations as this, bills if such nature are frustrated because majority of the politicians are shareholders in most casinos while some are owner's so passing such bill is like shooting yourself on your foot which is not possible. They might move motion but believe me that motion is dead on arrival because nobody would make such a deadly move on their own line of business just to frustrate their own efforts in making more money for themselves.

That's just The facts, I was about saying that the bill can only be frustrating if it has been signed, but since it is not signed then I agree with you that they will not allow the bill to be signed because they will all be affected, since it's their major source of income which they wouldn't dear to mess with. Allowing such thing to happen is like building a house for so many years and allowing it to be distroyed in a days by just a suggestion.