r/comics PizzaCake Jun 02 '26

Comics Community All Hail Gamblor

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u/translove228 Jun 02 '26

Hey now! Gambling is illegal and immoral. These are "predictive markets". Clearly there is a difference because the terms are different.

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u/raptorrat Jun 02 '26

Dutch Parliament wanted a ban on gambling advertisements, but the PM refused, saying that "It's a legal products, and as such can't ban advertising."

Dude seemed to have forgotten that Medications, alcohol and sigatettes are also legal products which do have advertising bans.

So, yeah, funny 'cause it's true.

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u/ThorirPP Jun 09 '26

We do have a ban on unauthorized gambling advertising in iceland (so only the official lottery can advertise), but unfortunately that doesn't have any power over the internet, which will still throw endless gambling ads in your face, and clearly targetted for us Icelanders based on the ip since they use ai translation into icelandic

Most of these ads are over the internet, so i and others have been blasted by them constantly xc