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by whycome 334 days ago
ban the marketing to children. or limit the ads to in between all the ads for the different betting platforms.
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Regulators have no control over who looks at a given billboard or television ad.

It's a new phenomenon that they might (might) be able to tell TikTok or Youtube to estimate the age of individual viewers and limit which topics can appear in advertisements to different age groups.

The existence of the candy flavors and any public marketing of those flavors (even on the label in the store aisle) is implicitly marketing to children.

They were banned before vapes existed. That's why the cartoon characters are gone. They still intentionally made it appealing to children.