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Sportsbet pressured key watchdog into 'watering down' public statement (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 week ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to c/australia@quokk.au

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In short:

The ABC can reveal the ACMA changed a draft media statement announcing action against Sportsbet after lobbying from the gambling giant.

The communications regulator maintains the changes did not "diminish" the final statement "in any way".

The ACMA has been under increasing pressure over a perception it is too close to the companies it regulates.

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[–] shads@lemy.lol 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just ban gambling companies from operating in Australia already. If we can ban social media for under 16s based on some barely coherent conservative masturbatory book that ascribes all the angst and doom that young people feel to that one easy scapegoat. Imagine how much more conviction our pollies should have against outlawing a borderline criminal enterprise that is literally propped up on the misery of addicts.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh you didn't know? We banned teens on social media for the gambling companies.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/pro-teen-social-media-ban-group-funded-firm-making-gambling-ads/

[–] shads@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago

Oh I am painfully aware.