Countries are outlawing online gambling ads. Meta is selling them anyway— A Rest of World analysis found Meta is disregarding local laws and the company’s own guidelines in at least 13 countries.
https://restofworld.org/2026/meta-online-gambling-ads/
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Meta disregards safety rails for profits, grok blames the user for csam. Wild days.
Meta and X are cancers on the world
Geniune question, but how is that enforceable internationally? If some of the most trafficked websites are US domains, how would a non-US apply? Same for US laws applying to a New Zealamd website for example? If the website is advertising legally in its country of origin and the user accesses the site from outside of that country, how are held liable?
And if the EU fines Meta the US Government will call it „unfair practices“….
Google does the same. There’s dozens of false advertising campaigns and nobody apparently cares
So maybe these countries should block them.
It was just on the cbc that Facebook in Canada has ads for hard drugs
So yea Facebook has a long history of being assholes
Between this and twitter’s “we don’t care our users are using grok to make pedo content” not facing any consequences, I wonder what kind of mess we will have to go through for finally make billionaires understand they’re not as untouchable they believe they are.
Why not? The punishments are so miniscule to the profits that companies are encouraged to break laws. Like, if online gambling ads made me a billion and the punishment is forcing me to pay 100 million, why the fuck would I ever stop? Might as well ask if someone would rather have a billion with a wrist slap or be broke for having a conscience
We can have phones run by different carriers and it works internationally anyway. Maybe we need some kind of segmental creation that rivals private social media but is run by each gov internally, like a post office.