121
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
10 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The gambling industry, facing its own potential ban

Considering how key this part is to the point, it's rather understated in this article.

In September 2022, Australia started a Parliamentary inquiry into online gambling. In June 2023 the inquiry handed down its full report, including 31 recommendations. 2 of those recommendations included a phased full ban of all advertising of online gambling.

Parliamentary rules require a response to inquiries within 6 months. 30 months later there still has not been any official response.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Yeah the speed with which the social media minimum age law was passed was astonishing. The public had just 24 hours to make submissions, and those submissions—thousands of them—were given just 4 hours of consideration by the parliamentary committee.

    Not an invasive surveillance power, but an extremely untransparent piece of rushed legislation that's already proving an abject failure as predicted by the many critics.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [+] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)
    [deleted]
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I’m starting to question whether the free press should even exist, or can exist under capitalism.

    It cannot. To begin with, having one rich fuck have their voice be amplified to a thousand or a hundred thousand times that of the average person, merely because their wealth allows them to buy and therefore control media, is obviously not democratic.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • load more comments (-1 replies)