Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who, The Leftovers) macht eine Anzeige wegen seiner Probleme mit Werbung für Sportglücksspiele, um Glücksspielwerbung in Großbritannien zu stoppen.
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Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who, The Leftovers) macht eine Anzeige wegen seiner Probleme mit Werbung für Sportglücksspiele, um Glücksspielwerbung in Großbritannien zu stoppen.
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He was great in Doctor Who.
TIL the bbc lied about why he left the show.
Good on him for doing this I’ve nothing against people enjoying a flutter but gambling is out of control, its ruining gaming as well, like a digital version of knotweed
Excellent. I hope this is successful. Sooner they ban betting advertising the better.
But a 15 min video?
You can’t buy Chris, you can’t corrupt his morals, if he sees something that’s wrong, he’s going to say something. Other Doctors might support the easy causes, but none of them are willing to put their careers on the line to stand up for the people on set with no power or voice. And that’s what you get with Chris. Not a carefully constructed image, but a real man with a true moral center.
The problem is that the gambling companies have a lots of money and they are very good at lobbying.
They throw money at whoever’s in government and as Krusty the Clown says „They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house, I’m not made of stone!“
In the past few months there has been talk of a gambling tax but this was quietly brushed under the carpet come the budget.
This video is a good start, but it’s going to need a public backlash, and MPs with morals, before anything happens.
[https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mps-staff-offices-donations-million-business-bosses-gambling-climate-sceptics/](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mps-staff-offices-donations-million-business-bosses-gambling-climate-sceptics/)
While I think gambling ads are problematic, it won’t be a guaranteed fix. But it is clear that some people just shouldn’t be allowed to place bets. Like if it’s your 20th bet of the day or you’re spending more than you make in a week. I think there could be some very obvious flags that someone should be investigated by an independent body and potentially stopped from gambling. At least in regulated markets. You can’t stop someone from betting £10 in the pub.
Yes, that would be a bit of an infringement on someone’s rights. But I don’t actually think that people have the right to destroy their lives with gambling.
If we want to fix a problem, let’s actually fix the problem. The problem isn’t gambing ads. It’s gambling (for some people).
Same goes for people that repeatedly drink and drive. Just take away their driving licence / car. Or people that drink themselves into ill health. You could bring in a drinking licence that you apply for at 18 but that can be revoked under certain circumstances.
I think there is a quiet majority out there that is in favour of more of a strong-arm government that says to its citizens, „You know what? You can’t be trusted with X so now you can’t have it. Go fix your life and here are the tools to do it.“. Replace X with drinking / driving / gambling / social media / children / the internet / etc.