A letter to the prime minister from Charlottetown Sen. Percy Downe and Waterloo Sen. Marty Deacon asks the government to have the CRTC ban all advertising for sports gambling apps and websites. It is supported by 40 other senators.

The letter says people of all ages who are exposed to the stream of ads are being influenced to turn their phone into "a pocket-sized casino."

It also references a CBC Marketplace report that found gambling messages fill up, on average, 21 per cent of a sporting event’s broadcast runtime.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 57 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Can we ban advertising for gambling as a whole?

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago

I wish we could just ban advertising period. It's psychological manipulation that's been perfected and concentrated over the years, and it's only getting worse.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or just ban gambling?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm all for banning it but if that doesn't work due to black market issues, then restrict it hard. Like it used to be.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

True, better harm reduction regulations may be better.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can we ban advertising on pharmaceuticals? There are so many pharma ads around where I live it's insane.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

This, it's borderline dangerous to advertise prescription-based pharmaceuticals. Leave that to the professional to decide if they should be prescribed, not the patient.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ive noticed this too, some of the ads I've heard on the radio are similar to the ads in the US where the disclaimer and side effects warnings are longer than the ad itself.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah this wasn't really a thing just two years ago, I wonder what changed...

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Yes.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

I would like advertising for all adult activities to be limited to other places of adult activities. casinos, bars, liquor stores, strip clubs, what have you. They can have all sorts of banners and fliers for each other and none of it should be visible from the outside.