Quote from: goldkingcoiner on Today at 02:20:12 PM

Quote from: Russlenat on Today at 01:21:27 PM

I read a post saying that here in our country, the government has started cracking down on illegal casinos, and they’re also looking into ways to get vloggers promoting them banned from their social media accounts. I even saw some of the names mentioned, the top one had 13 million followers, followed by another with 9 million.

They probably got paid a huge amount to promote gambling, but they didn’t think about the consequences. Just imagine losing an account with millions of followers because you promoted an illegal casino. That’s years of hard work gone in an instant, all because of greed.

What country is "our country"?

I doubt the government is going to go after the small fish promoters, but someone with millions of followers is definitely going to have a bad day if they are caught promoting an illegal casino. Although I do not think it is fair to ban such large accounts that have had so much work put into them. Since they are going to get into trouble with the government they will probably pay a fine or something anyway, so why the ban? Or did they continue promoting illegal casinos despite being warned not to do so? Because the latter I can understand completely.

It's the Philippines and here are the list of vloggers that are under investigation.

https://www.yugatech.com/news/dict-begins-crackdown-on-illegal-gambling-promotions-influencers-under-fire/

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1 3 m a j or i n fl ue nc er s 12 w ith a c ol lec tiv e r each of ov er 4 6 mil li on f o llo w e r s a re u n d er i n v e s t i ga t ion a t t he time o f w r i t i n g . Th e p eopl e in q u esti on are u n d e r scru ti ny, a l l e g ed ly e a rn i ng 50-6 0 % o f r e v enu es fr om i l l e g al gamb l i n g s i te s.

Judging by the number of followers they have, you can tell how massive their influence is, especially the top one, who became really popular for playing Mobile Legends. And I’d assume most of his followers are minors, which makes it even more concerning.

That means a lot of kids are being exposed to gambling at an early age, and that’s a serious problem.